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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Sep 15, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 15, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand

While trying to get the subpage blocksize tests running, I hit the
following panic on generic/476

assertion failed: PagePrivate(page) && page->private, in fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
CPU: 1 PID: 1453 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7+ #12
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20230301gitf80f052277c8-26.fc38 03/01/2023
pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
lr : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
Call trace:
btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0
btrfs_subpage_clear_checked+0x38/0xc0
btrfs_page_clear_checked+0x48/0x98
btrfs_truncate_block+0x5d0/0x6a8
btrfs_cont_expand+0x5c/0x528
btrfs_write_check.isra.0+0xf8/0x150
btrfs_buffered_write+0xb4/0x760
btrfs_do_write_iter+0x2f8/0x4b0
btrfs_file_write_iter+0x1c/0x30
do_iter_readv_writev+0xc8/0x158
do_iter_write+0x9c/0x210
vfs_iter_write+0x24/0x40
iter_file_splice_write+0x224/0x390
direct_splice_actor+0x38/0x68
splice_direct_to_actor+0x12c/0x260
do_splice_direct+0x90/0xe8
generic_copy_file_range+0x50/0x90
vfs_copy_file_range+0x29c/0x470
__arm64_sys_copy_file_range+0xcc/0x498
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x80/0xd8
do_el0_svc+0x6c/0x168
el0_svc+0x50/0x1b0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x120
el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198

This happens because during btrfs_cont_expand we'll get a page, set it
as mapped, and if it's not Uptodate we'll read it. However between the
read and re-locking the page we could have called release_folio() on the
page, but left the page in the file mapping. release_folio() can clear
the page private, and thus further down we blow up when we go to modify
the subpage bits.

Fix this by putting the set_page_extent_mapped() after the read. This
is safe because read_folio() will call set_page_extent_mapped() before
it does the read, and then if we clear page private but leave it on the
mapping we're completely safe re-setting set_page_extent_mapped(). With
this patch I can now run generic/476 without panicing.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 15, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 15, 2025
Last updated Sep 15, 2025

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2023-53247

GHSA ID

GHSA-73r6-2g26-rxx5

Source code

No known source code

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