CVE-2025-39759

btrfs: qgroup: fix race between quota disable and quota rescan ioctl

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 11, 2025
Updated
May 12, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

btrfs: qgroup: fix race between quota disable and quota rescan ioctl

There's a race between a task disabling quotas and another running the rescan ioctl that can result in a use-after-free of qgroup records from the fs_info->qgroup_tree rbtree.

This happens as follows:

1) Task A enters btrfs_ioctl_quota_rescan() -> btrfs_qgroup_rescan();

2) Task B enters btrfs_quota_disable() and calls btrfs_qgroup_wait_for_completion(), which does nothing because at that point fs_info->qgroup_rescan_running is false (it wasn't set yet by task A);

3) Task B calls btrfs_free_qgroup_config() which starts freeing qgroups from fs_info->qgroup_tree without taking the lock fs_info->qgroup_lock;

4) Task A enters qgroup_rescan_zero_tracking() which starts iterating the fs_info->qgroup_tree tree while holding fs_info->qgroup_lock, but task B is freeing qgroup records from that tree without holding the lock, resulting in a use-after-free.

Fix this by taking fs_info->qgroup_lock at btrfs_free_qgroup_config(). Also at btrfs_qgroup_rescan() don't start the rescan worker if quotas were already disabled.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e685da14af6b31e4b336a110cb1bae1afc268be8 to before 7cda0fdde5d9890976861421d207870500f9aaceAffected
  • e685da14af6b31e4b336a110cb1bae1afc268be8 to before b172535ccba12f0cf7d23b3b840989de47fc104dAffected
  • e685da14af6b31e4b336a110cb1bae1afc268be8 to before dd0b28d877b293b1d7f8727a7de08ae36b6b9ef0Affected
  • e685da14af6b31e4b336a110cb1bae1afc268be8 to before c38028ce0d0045ca600b6a8345a0ff92bfb47b66Affected
  • e685da14af6b31e4b336a110cb1bae1afc268be8 to before 2fd0f5ceb997f90f4332ccbab6c7e907e6b2d0ebAffected
  • e685da14af6b31e4b336a110cb1bae1afc268be8 to before e1249667750399a48cafcf5945761d39fa584edfAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.12Affected
  • before 3.12Not affected
  • 6.1.149 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.103 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.44 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.11 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16.2 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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