linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-40235: btrfs: directly free partially initialized fs_info in btrfs_check_leaked

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Message-ID: <2025120401-CVE-2025-40235-4e24@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  4 Dec 2025 16:32:10 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40235: btrfs: directly free partially initialized fs_info in btrfs_check_leaked_roots()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

btrfs: directly free partially initialized fs_info in btrfs_check_leaked_roots()

If fs_info->super_copy or fs_info->super_for_commit allocated failed in
btrfs_get_tree_subvol(), then no need to call btrfs_free_fs_info().
Otherwise btrfs_check_leaked_roots() would access NULL pointer because
fs_info->allocated_roots had not been initialised.

syzkaller reported the following information:
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffbb0
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 64c9067 P4D 64c9067 PUD 64cb067 PMD 0
  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1402 Comm: syz.1.35 Not tainted 6.15.8 #4 PREEMPT(lazy)
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), (...)
  RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:33 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:refcount_read include/linux/refcount.h:170 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:btrfs_check_leaked_roots+0x18f/0x2c0 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1230
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   btrfs_free_fs_info+0x310/0x410 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1280
   btrfs_get_tree_subvol+0x592/0x6b0 fs/btrfs/super.c:2029
   btrfs_get_tree+0x63/0x80 fs/btrfs/super.c:2097
   vfs_get_tree+0x98/0x320 fs/super.c:1759
   do_new_mount+0x357/0x660 fs/namespace.c:3899
   path_mount+0x716/0x19c0 fs/namespace.c:4226
   do_mount fs/namespace.c:4239 [inline]
   __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4450 [inline]
   __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4427 [inline]
   __x64_sys_mount+0x28c/0x310 fs/namespace.c:4427
   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
   do_syscall_64+0x92/0x180 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
  RIP: 0033:0x7f032eaffa8d
  [...]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40235 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit 3bb17a25bcb09abbd667c6ac86c7c9109ae82bcd and fixed in 6.12.56 with commit b1c2b4e6ffd307720ab6ce42f6749b0c02ba0a73
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit 3bb17a25bcb09abbd667c6ac86c7c9109ae82bcd and fixed in 6.17.6 with commit 0c2b2d4d053e9840e6da6ed581befa20309f281a
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit 3bb17a25bcb09abbd667c6ac86c7c9109ae82bcd and fixed in 6.18 with commit 17679ac6df6c4830ba711835aa8cf961be36cfa1

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-40235
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/btrfs/super.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1c2b4e6ffd307720ab6ce42f6749b0c02ba0a73
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c2b2d4d053e9840e6da6ed581befa20309f281a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17679ac6df6c4830ba711835aa8cf961be36cfa1