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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-37856

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/09/2025 3:16:06 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: harden block_group::bg_list against list_del() races

As far as I can tell, these calls of list_del_init() on bg_list cannot
run concurrently with btrfs_mark_bg_unused() or btrfs_mark_bg_to_reclaim(),
as they are in transaction error paths and situations where the block
group is readonly.

However, if there is any chance at all of racing with mark_bg_unused(),
or a different future user of bg_list, better to be safe than sorry.

Otherwise we risk the following interleaving (bg_list refcount in parens)

T1 (some random op)                       T2 (btrfs_mark_bg_unused)
                                        !list_empty(&bg->bg_list); (1)
list_del_init(&bg->bg_list); (1)
                                        list_move_tail (1)
btrfs_put_block_group (0)
                                        btrfs_delete_unused_bgs
                                             bg = list_first_entry
                                             list_del_init(&bg->bg_list);
                                             btrfs_put_block_group(bg); (-1)

Ultimately, this results in a broken ref count that hits zero one deref
early and the real final deref underflows the refcount, resulting in a WARNING.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/185fd73e5ac06027c4be9a129e59193f6a3ef202
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7511e29cf1355b2c47d0effb39e463119913e2f6
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/909e60fb469d4101c6b08cf6e622efb062bb24a1
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf089c4d1141b27332c092b1dcca5022c415a3b6