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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: do not trim a device which is not writeable
[BUG]
There is a bug report that btrfs/242 can randomly fail with the
following NULL pointer dereference:
run fstests btrfs/242 at 2026-06-01 10:25:08
BTRFS: device fsid d4d7f234-487c-4787-88e4-47a8b68c9874 devid 1 transid 9 /dev/sdc (8:32) scanned by mount (122609)
BTRFS info (device sdc): first mount of filesystem d4d7f234-487c-4787-88e4-47a8b68c9874
BTRFS info (device sdc): using crc32c checksum algorithm
BTRFS warning (device sdc): devid 2 uuid fbe72d72-3272-482d-80fb-ab88ed398192 is missing
BTRFS warning (device sdc): devid 2 uuid fbe72d72-3272-482d-80fb-ab88ed398192 is missing
BTRFS info (device sdc): allowing degraded mounts
BTRFS info (device sdc): turning on async discard
BTRFS info (device sdc): enabling free space tree
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000018
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000013fd6b000
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 122625 Comm: fstrim Not tainted 7.0.10-2-default #1 PREEMPT(full) openSUSE Tumbleweed e9a5f6b24978fba3bf015a992f865837fdfff3dd
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20250812-19.fc42 08/12/2025
pstate: 01400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : btrfs_trim_fs+0x34c/0xa00 [btrfs]
lr : btrfs_trim_fs+0x1f0/0xa00 [btrfs]
Call trace:
btrfs_trim_fs+0x34c/0xa00 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840] (P)
btrfs_ioctl_fitrim+0xe8/0x178 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840]
btrfs_ioctl+0xdd4/0x2bd8 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840]
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x108
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x5c/0xd0
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x40
el0_svc+0x40/0x1d0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8
Code: 17ffff83 f94017e0 f9002be0 f9402ea0 (f9400c00)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Also the reporter is very kind to test the following ASSERT() added to
btrfs_trim_free_extents_throttle():
ASSERT(device->bdev,
"devid=%llu path=%s dev_state=0x%lx\n",
device->devid, btrfs_dev_name(device), device->dev_state);
And it shows the following output:
assertion failed: device->bdev, in extent-tree.c:6630 (devid=2 path=/dev/sdd dev_state=0x82)
Which means the device->bdev is NULL, and the dev_state is
BTRFS_DEV_STATE_IN_FS_METADATA | BTRFS_DEV_STATE_ITEM_FOUND, without
BTRFS_DEV_STATE_WRITEABLE flag set.
[CAUSE]
The pc points to the following call chain:
btrfs_trim_fs()
|- btrfs_trim_free_extents()
|- btrfs_trim_free_extents_throttle()
|- bdev_max_discard_sectors(device->bdev)
So the NULL pointer dereference is caused by device->bdev being NULL.
This looks impossible by a quick glance, as just before calling
btrfs_trim_free_extents_throttle(), we have skipped any device that has
BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING flag set.
However in this particular case, there is a window where the missing
device is later re-scanned, causing btrfs to remove the
BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING flag:
btrfs_control_ioctl()
|- btrfs_scan_one_device()
|- device_list_add()
|- rcu_assign_pointer(device->name, name);
| This updates the missing device's path to the new good path.
|
|- clear_bit(BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING, &device->dev_state)
This removes the BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING flag.
This allows the missing device to re-appear and clear the
BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING flag. However the device still does not have
the BTRFS_DEV_STATE_WRITEABLE flag set, nor is its bdev pointer updated.
The bdev pointer remains NULL, triggering the crash later.
[FIX]
This is a big de-synchronization between BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING and
device->bdev pointer, and shows a gap in btrfs's re-appearing-device
handling.
The proper handling of re-appearing device will need quite some extra
work, which is out of the context of this small
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: do not trim a device which is not writeable
[BUG]
There is a bug report that btrfs/242 can randomly fail with the
following NULL pointer dereference:
run fstests btrfs/242 at 2026-06-01 10:25:08
BTRFS: device fsid d4d7f234-487c-4787-88e4-47a8b68c9874 devid 1 transid 9 /dev/sdc (8:32) scanned by mount (122609)
BTRFS info (device sdc): first mount of filesystem d4d7f234-487c-4787-88e4-47a8b68c9874
BTRFS info (device sdc): using crc32c checksum algorithm
BTRFS warning (device sdc): devid 2 uuid fbe72d72-3272-482d-80fb-ab88ed398192 is missing
BTRFS warning (device sdc): devid 2 uuid fbe72d72-3272-482d-80fb-ab88ed398192 is missing
BTRFS info (device sdc): allowing degraded mounts
BTRFS info (device sdc): turning on async discard
BTRFS info (device sdc): enabling free space tree
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000018
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000013fd6b000
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 122625 Comm: fstrim Not tainted 7.0.10-2-default #1 PREEMPT(full) openSUSE Tumbleweed e9a5f6b24978fba3bf015a992f865837fdfff3dd
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20250812-19.fc42 08/12/2025
pstate: 01400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : btrfs_trim_fs+0x34c/0xa00 [btrfs]
lr : btrfs_trim_fs+0x1f0/0xa00 [btrfs]
Call trace:
btrfs_trim_fs+0x34c/0xa00 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840] (P)
btrfs_ioctl_fitrim+0xe8/0x178 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840]
btrfs_ioctl+0xdd4/0x2bd8 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840]
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x108
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x5c/0xd0
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x40
el0_svc+0x40/0x1d0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8
Code: 17ffff83 f94017e0 f9002be0 f9402ea0 (f9400c00)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Also the reporter is very kind to test the following ASSERT() added to
bt
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