Bug 2517048 (CVE-2026-74571) - CVE-2026-74571 kernel: btrfs: skip global block reserve accounting for rescue mounts
Summary: CVE-2026-74571 kernel: btrfs: skip global block reserve accounting for rescue...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74571
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 12:47 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-19 17:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 12:47:03 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: skip global block reserve accounting for rescue mounts

[BUG]
Mounting with rescue=ibadroots after corrupting the block group tree
root triggers a NULL pointer dereference:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000100
  RIP: 0010:btrfs_update_global_block_rsv+0x9d/0x1c0 [btrfs]
  Call Trace:
   fill_dummy_bgs+0xd4/0x120 [btrfs]
   open_ctree+0xc6e/0x1ca0 [btrfs]
   btrfs_get_tree+0x50d/0xa40 [btrfs]

The same crash occurs with a corrupted raid stripe tree root, via
btrfs_read_block_groups() instead of fill_dummy_bgs().

[CAUSE]
With rescue=ibadroots, btrfs_read_roots() allows the mount to continue
when either root cannot be read, leaving the corresponding root pointer
NULL while its on-disk feature bit remains set.

btrfs_update_global_block_rsv() then dereferences the missing root based
on the feature bit alone.

[FIX]
Rescue mounts are fully read-only and cannot start transactions, so the
global reserve is never consumed. Under btrfs_is_full_ro(), mark the
reserve as full and return before performing the accounting.

And since we need to check if the fs is mount fully RO, export
fs_is_full_ro() as btrfs_is_full_ro(), and move it to fs.h.

[ Squash the fs_is_full_ro() export commit into this one. ]

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-08-19 17:20:36 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026081554-CVE-2026-74571-b7b1@gregkh/T


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