CVE-2023-54067
CVE-2023-54067CVE-2023-54067
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix race when deleting free space root from the dirty cow roots list
When deleting the free space tree we are deleting the free space root
from the list fs_info->dirty_cowonly_roots without taking the lock that
protects it, which is struct btrfs_fs_info::trans_lock.
This unsynchronized list manipulation may cause chaos if there's another
concurrent manipulation of this list, such as when adding a root to it
with ctree.c:add_root_to_dirty_list().
This can result in all sorts of weird failures caused by a race, such as
the following crash:
[337571.278245] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000108: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[337571.278933] CPU: 1 PID: 115447 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G W 6.4.0-rc6-btrfs-next-134+ #1
[337571.279153] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[337571.2
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |