Bug 2379176 (CVE-2025-38269) - CVE-2025-38269 kernel: btrfs: exit after state insertion failure at btrfs_convert_extent_bit()
Summary: CVE-2025-38269 kernel: btrfs: exit after state insertion failure at btrfs_con...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38269
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-07-10 08:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-07-11 12:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 08:01:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: exit after state insertion failure at btrfs_convert_extent_bit()

If insert_state() state failed it returns an error pointer and we call
extent_io_tree_panic() which will trigger a BUG() call. However if
CONFIG_BUG is disabled, which is an uncommon and exotic scenario, then
we fallthrough and call cache_state() which will dereference the error
pointer, resulting in an invalid memory access.

So jump to the 'out' label after calling extent_io_tree_panic(), it also
makes the code more clear besides dealing with the exotic scenario where
CONFIG_BUG is disabled.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-11 12:25:33 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025071007-CVE-2025-38269-fb65@gregkh/T


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