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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-64567

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/05/2026 4:16:36 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

btrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages

When loading a v1 free space cache, __load_free_space_cache() takes
num_entries and num_bitmaps straight from the on-disk
btrfs_free_space_header. That header is stored in the tree_root under a key
with type 0, which the tree-checker has no case for, so neither count is
validated before the load trusts it.

The load loops num_entries times and maps the next page whenever the current
one runs out, going through io_ctl_check_crc() -> io_ctl_map_page(), which
does io_ctl->pages[io_ctl->index++]. But pages[] is allocated in
io_ctl_init() from the cache inode's i_size, not from num_entries:

	num_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE);
	io_ctl->pages = kcalloc(num_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);

So if num_entries claims more records than the pages can hold, io_ctl->index
runs off the end of pages[]. The write side never hits this because
io_ctl_add_entry() and io_ctl_add_bitmap() both stop once
io_ctl->index >= io_ctl->num_pages; the read side just never had the same
check.

To trigger it, take a clean cache (num_entries = <N> here), set num_entries
in the header to 0x10000, and fix up the leaf checksum so it still passes
the tree-checker. The cache inode has i_size = 65536, so num_pages is 16 and
pages[] is a 16-pointer (kmalloc-128) array. The load now tries to read
65536 entries, io_ctl->index walks up to 16, and pages[16] is read past the
array:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800c833a80 by task kworker/u8:3/58
   io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)
   __load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:655 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:820)
   load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:1017)
   caching_thread (fs/btrfs/block-group.c:880)
   btrfs_work_helper (fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:312)
   process_one_work
   worker_thread
   kthread
   ret_from_fork

free-space-cache.c:420 is io_ctl_map_page(), inlined into io_ctl_check_crc()
at line 565, which is why that is the frame KASAN names. The out-of-bounds
slot is then treated as a struct page and handed to crc32c(), so the bad
read turns into a GP fault.

Add the missing check to io_ctl_check_crc(), which is where both the entry
loop and the bitmap loop end up. When num_entries is too large the load now
fails like any corrupt cache: __load_free_space_cache() drops it and rebuilds
the free space from the extent tree, so a valid cache is never rejected.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33878ba25e2638bc0c61623d7a05c9ca2b74c039
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/404a0b986e0b6e79738fdf1f0ebbbc43b9acd2a2
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e1b2ca6b34939e70fb0785e8222b53cf060016f
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2d8d5647ed854e38f941741aea45b9eb15a6350
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9fef131fa3f59b857217f522fa5ea430d1b707c
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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