Bug 2540541 (CVE-2026-93813) - CVE-2026-93813 kernel: btrfs: tree-checker: validate INODE_REF's namelen
Summary: CVE-2026-93813 kernel: btrfs: tree-checker: validate INODE_REF's namelen
Keywords:
Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-93813
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-09-24 17:11 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-28 13:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-24 17:11:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: tree-checker: validate INODE_REF's namelen

[BUG]
A crafted btrfs image can trigger the following crash:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffd1dc42884000
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
  CPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 1034 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.1.0-rc4-custom+ #383 PREEMPT(full)  46af0a92938a63be7132e0dfd71e62327c51d5c2
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
  RIP: 0010:memcpy+0xc/0x10
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   read_extent_buffer+0xe4/0x100 [btrfs 3cf0785dd58fec8c5ff84633b772f17ce1f92a8f]
   btrfs_get_name+0x15e/0x1e0 [btrfs 3cf0785dd58fec8c5ff84633b772f17ce1f92a8f]
   reconnect_path+0x165/0x390
   exportfs_decode_fh_raw+0x337/0x400
   ? drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0xb0/0xb0
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
  RIP: 0010:memcpy+0xc/0x10
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

[CAUSE]
TThe crafted image has the following corrupted INODE_REF item:

         item 9 key (258 INODE_REF 257) itemoff 11544 itemsize 4106
         	index 2 namelen 4096 name: d\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000

The itemsize matches the namelen, but the namelen is 4096, way larger
than normal name length limit (BTRFS_NAME_LEN, 255).

Meanwhile the memory of the @name is only 255 byte sized, this will cause
out-of-boundary access, and cause the above crash.

[FIX]
Add extra namelen verification for INODE_REF, just like what we have
done in ROOT_REF checks.

Now the crafted image can be rejected gracefully:

 BTRFS critical (device dm-2): corrupt leaf: root=5 block=30572544 slot=14 ino=259, invalid inode ref name length, has 4096 expect [1, 255]
 BTRFS error (device dm-2): read time tree block corruption detected on logical 30572544 mirror 2

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