CVE-2023-53339 (GCVE-0-2023-53339)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-17 14:56 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:43
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Title
btrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance
Pausing and canceling balance can race to interrupt balance lead to BUG_ON
panic in btrfs_cancel_balance. The BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance
does not take this race scenario into account.
However, the race condition has no other side effects. We can fix that.
Reproducing it with panic trace like this:
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4618!
RIP: 0010:btrfs_cancel_balance+0x5cf/0x6a0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? do_nanosleep+0x60/0x120
? hrtimer_nanosleep+0xb7/0x1a0
? sched_core_clone_cookie+0x70/0x70
btrfs_ioctl_balance_ctl+0x55/0x70
btrfs_ioctl+0xa46/0xd20
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x7d/0xa0
do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Race scenario as follows:
> mutex_unlock(&fs_info->balance_mutex);
> --------------------
> .......issue pause and cancel req in another thread
> --------------------
> ret = __btrfs_balance(fs_info);
>
> mutex_lock(&fs_info->balance_mutex);
> if (ret == -ECANCELED && atomic_read(&fs_info->balance_pause_req)) {
> btrfs_info(fs_info, "balance: paused");
> btrfs_exclop_balance(fs_info, BTRFS_EXCLOP_BALANCE_PAUSED);
> }
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
ddf7e8984c83aee9122552529f4e77291903f8d9 , < ceb9ba8e30833a4823e2dc73f80ebcdf2498d01a
(git)
Affected: 72efe5d44821e38540888a5fe3ff3d0faab6acad , < ae81329f7de3aa6f34ecdfa5412e72161a30e9ce (git) Affected: b19c98f237cd76981aaded52c258ce93f7daa8cb , < 29eefa6d0d07e185f7bfe9576f91e6dba98189c2 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.1.42 , < 6.1.47
(semver)
Affected: 6.4.7 , < 6.4.12 (semver) |
guessed |
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