Bug 2395273 (CVE-2023-53183) - CVE-2023-53183 kernel: btrfs: exit gracefully if reloc roots don't match
Summary: CVE-2023-53183 kernel: btrfs: exit gracefully if reloc roots don't match
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53183
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-15 15:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-15 19:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:04:34 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: exit gracefully if reloc roots don't match

[BUG]
Syzbot reported a crash that an ASSERT() got triggered inside
prepare_to_merge().

[CAUSE]
The root cause of the triggered ASSERT() is we can have a race between
quota tree creation and relocation.

This leads us to create a duplicated quota tree in the
btrfs_read_fs_root() path, and since it's treated as fs tree, it would
have ROOT_SHAREABLE flag, causing us to create a reloc tree for it.

The bug itself is fixed by a dedicated patch for it, but this already
taught us the ASSERT() is not something straightforward for
developers.

[ENHANCEMENT]
Instead of using an ASSERT(), let's handle it gracefully and output
extra info about the mismatch reloc roots to help debug.

Also with the above ASSERT() removed, we can trigger ASSERT(0)s inside
merge_reloc_roots() later.
Also replace those ASSERT(0)s with WARN_ON()s.


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