Bug 2426159 (CVE-2023-54185) - CVE-2023-54185 kernel: btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space()
Summary: CVE-2023-54185 kernel: btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54185
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-30 13:13 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-31 04:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:13:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space()

At add_new_free_space() we have these BUG_ON()'s that are there to deal
with any failure to add free space to the in memory free space cache.
Such failures are mostly -ENOMEM that should be very rare. However there's
no need to have these BUG_ON()'s, we can just return any error to the
caller and all callers and their upper call chain are already dealing with
errors.

So just make add_new_free_space() return any errors, while removing the
BUG_ON()'s, and returning the total amount of added free space to an
optional u64 pointer argument.


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