CVE-2023-54185
btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space()
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 30, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Reserved
- Dec 30, 2025
Description
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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Affected Products
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