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
---truncated---

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02c903fc6fc7e16c5d1f22d18784f1208acf43e3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b1937eb08f51319bf71575484cde2b8c517aedc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/210af872eafa0cf572a84cb303c0f9d2914c1226

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d8fa4b828a86b33c60858e58aaab6df273ede05

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a64521802997257b144e6edfb4e278dbeb972dd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c894159c5b8adc84072e3af0e55b0473a69564e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4af31b898a948e29861cb0bae734058f9a49d9b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f41ae7e6664f3c4361129728f2c4d5f3ed995251

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