{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-38358","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-04-16T04:51:24.007Z","datePublished":"2025-07-25T12:47:29.515Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:26:26.720Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:26:26.720Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix race between async reclaim worker and close_ctree()\n\nSyzbot reported an assertion failure due to an attempt to add a delayed\niput after we have set BTRFS_FS_STATE_NO_DELAYED_IPUT in the fs_info\nstate:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 65 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:3420 btrfs_add_delayed_iput+0x2f8/0x370 fs/btrfs/inode.c:3420\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 65 Comm: kworker/u8:4 Not tainted 6.15.0-next-20250530-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\n Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025\n Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write btrfs_work_helper\n RIP: 0010:btrfs_add_delayed_iput+0x2f8/0x370 fs/btrfs/inode.c:3420\n Code: 4e ad 5d (...)\n RSP: 0018:ffffc9000213f780 EFLAGS: 00010293\n RAX: ffffffff83c635b7 RBX: ffff888058920000 RCX: ffff88801c769e00\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000100 RDI: 0000000000000000\n RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff888058921b67 R09: 1ffff1100b12436c\n R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100b12436d R12: 0000000000000001\n R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff88807d748000 R15: 0000000000000100\n FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888125c53000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 00002000000bd038 CR3: 000000006a142000 CR4: 00000000003526f0\n DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n Call Trace:\n \n btrfs_put_ordered_extent+0x19f/0x470 fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c:635\n btrfs_finish_one_ordered+0x11d8/0x1b10 fs/btrfs/inode.c:3312\n btrfs_work_helper+0x399/0xc20 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:312\n process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline]\n process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321\n worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402\n kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464\n ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n \n\nThis can happen due to a race with the async reclaim worker like this:\n\n1) The async metadata reclaim worker enters shrink_delalloc(), which calls\n btrfs_start_delalloc_roots() with an nr_pages argument that has a value\n less than LONG_MAX, and that in turn enters start_delalloc_inodes(),\n which sets the local variable 'full_flush' to false because\n wbc->nr_to_write is less than LONG_MAX;\n\n2) There it finds inode X in a root's delalloc list, grabs a reference for\n inode X (with igrab()), and triggers writeback for it with\n filemap_fdatawrite_wbc(), which creates an ordered extent for inode X;\n\n3) The unmount sequence starts from another task, we enter close_ctree()\n and we flush the workqueue fs_info->endio_write_workers, which waits\n for the ordered extent for inode X to complete and when dropping the\n last reference of the ordered extent, with btrfs_put_ordered_extent(),\n when we call btrfs_add_delayed_iput() we don't add the inode to the\n list of delayed iputs because it has a refcount of 2, so we decrement\n it to 1 and return;\n\n4) Shortly after at close_ctree() we call btrfs_run_delayed_iputs() which\n runs all delayed iputs, and then we set BTRFS_FS_STATE_NO_DELAYED_IPUT\n in the fs_info state;\n\n5) The async reclaim worker, after calling filemap_fdatawrite_wbc(), now\n calls btrfs_add_delayed_iput() for inode X and there we trigger an\n assertion failure since the fs_info state has the flag\n BTRFS_FS_STATE_NO_DELAYED_IPUT set.\n\nFix this by setting BTRFS_FS_STATE_NO_DELAYED_IPUT only after we wait for\nthe async reclaim workers to finish, after we call cancel_work_sync() for\nthem at close_ctree(), and by running delayed iputs after wait for the\nreclaim workers to finish and before setting the bit.\n\nThis race was recently introduced by commit 19e60b2a95f5 (\"btrfs: add\nextra warning if delayed iput is added when it's not allowed\"). Without\nthe new validation at btrfs_add_delayed_iput(), \n---truncated---"}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["fs/btrfs/disk-io.c"],"versions":[{"version":"19e60b2a95f5d6b77d972c7bec35a11e70fd118c","lessThan":"4693cda2c06039c875f2eef0123b22340c34bfa0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"19e60b2a95f5d6b77d972c7bec35a11e70fd118c","lessThan":"a26bf338cdad3643a6e7c3d78a172baadba15c1a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["fs/btrfs/disk-io.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.15.5","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.16","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.15","versionEndExcluding":"6.15.5"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.15","versionEndExcluding":"6.16"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4693cda2c06039c875f2eef0123b22340c34bfa0"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26bf338cdad3643a6e7c3d78a172baadba15c1a"}],"title":"btrfs: fix race between async reclaim worker and close_ctree()","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}