FKIE_CVE-2025-21879

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-27 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:44
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free on inode when scanning root during em shrinking At btrfs_scan_root() we are accessing the inode's root (and fs_info) in a call to btrfs_fs_closing() after we have scheduled the inode for a delayed iput, and that can result in a use-after-free on the inode in case the cleaner kthread does the iput before we dereference the inode in the call to btrfs_fs_closing(). Fix this by using the fs_info stored already in a local variable instead of doing inode->root->fs_info.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07836bc18f4ae42da4e922244f4685561c18755e
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59f37036bb7ab3d554c24abc856aabca01126414Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e79d26014f9386387575b9ed60d342057cee49bPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.14
linux linux_kernel 6.14
linux linux_kernel 6.14
linux linux_kernel 6.14
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