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Message-ID: <2026013121-CVE-2026-23036-17dd@gregkh>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:44:36 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-23036: btrfs: release path before iget_failed() in btrfs_read_locked_inode()
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: release path before iget_failed() in btrfs_read_locked_inode()
In btrfs_read_locked_inode() if we fail to lookup the inode, we jump to
the 'out' label with a path that has a read locked leaf and then we call
iget_failed(). This can result in a ABBA deadlock, since iget_failed()
triggers inode eviction and that causes the release of the delayed inode,
which must lock the delayed inode's mutex, and a task updating a delayed
inode starts by taking the node's mutex and then modifying the inode's
subvolume btree.
Syzbot reported the following lockdep splat for this:
======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
syzkaller #0 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
btrfs-cleaner/8725 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff0000d6826a48 (&delayed_node->mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: __btrfs_release_delayed_node+0xa0/0x9b0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:290
but task is already holding lock:
ffff0000dbeba878 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{4:4}, at: btrfs_tree_read_lock_nested+0x44/0x2ec fs/btrfs/locking.c:145
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #1 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{4:4}:
__lock_release kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5574 [inline]
lock_release+0x198/0x39c kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5889
up_read+0x24/0x3c kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1632
btrfs_tree_read_unlock+0xdc/0x298 fs/btrfs/locking.c:169
btrfs_tree_unlock_rw fs/btrfs/locking.h:218 [inline]
btrfs_search_slot+0xa6c/0x223c fs/btrfs/ctree.c:2133
btrfs_lookup_inode+0xd8/0x38c fs/btrfs/inode-item.c:395
__btrfs_update_delayed_inode+0x124/0xed0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1032
btrfs_update_delayed_inode fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1118 [inline]
__btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_items+0x15f8/0x1748 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1141
__btrfs_run_delayed_items+0x1ac/0x514 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1176
btrfs_run_delayed_items_nr+0x28/0x38 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1219
flush_space+0x26c/0xb68 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:828
do_async_reclaim_metadata_space+0x110/0x364 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:1158
btrfs_async_reclaim_metadata_space+0x90/0xd8 fs/btrfs/space-info.c:1226
process_one_work+0x7e8/0x155c kernel/workqueue.c:3263
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3346 [inline]
worker_thread+0x958/0xed8 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
kthread+0x5fc/0x75c kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:844
-> #0 (&delayed_node->mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3165 [inline]
check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3284 [inline]
validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3908 [inline]
__lock_acquire+0x1774/0x30a4 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237
lock_acquire+0x14c/0x2e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
__mutex_lock_common+0x1d0/0x2678 kernel/locking/mutex.c:598
__mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:760 [inline]
mutex_lock_nested+0x2c/0x38 kernel/locking/mutex.c:812
__btrfs_release_delayed_node+0xa0/0x9b0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:290
btrfs_release_delayed_node fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:315 [inline]
btrfs_remove_delayed_node+0x68/0x84 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1326
btrfs_evict_inode+0x578/0xe28 fs/btrfs/inode.c:5587
evict+0x414/0x928 fs/inode.c:810
iput_final fs/inode.c:1914 [inline]
iput+0x95c/0xad4 fs/inode.c:1966
iget_failed+0xec/0x134 fs/bad_inode.c:248
btrfs_read_locked_inode+0xe1c/0x1234 fs/btrfs/inode.c:4101
btrfs_iget+0x1b0/0x264 fs/btrfs/inode.c:5837
btrfs_run_defrag_inode fs/btrfs/defrag.c:237 [inline]
btrfs_run_defrag_inodes+0x520/0xdc4 fs/btrfs/defrag.c:309
cleaner_kthread+0x21c/0x418 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1516
kthread+0x5fc/0x75c kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:844
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
rlock(btrfs-tree-00);
lock(&delayed_node->mutex);
lock(btrfs-tree-00);
lock(&delayed_node->mutex);
*** DEADLOCK ***
1 lock held by btrfs-cleaner/8725:
#0: ffff0000dbeba878 (btrfs-tree-00){++++}-{4:4}, at: btrfs_tree_read_lock_nested+0x44/0x2ec fs/btrfs/locking.c:145
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8725 Comm: btrfs-cleaner Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/03/2025
Call trace:
show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:499 (C)
__dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:94
dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:120
dump_stack+0x1c/0x28 lib/dump_stack.c:129
print_circular_bug+0x324/0x32c kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2043
check_noncircular+0x154/0x174 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2175
check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3165 [inline]
check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3284 [inline]
validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3908 [inline]
__lock_acquire+0x1774/0x30a4 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237
lock_acquire+0x14c/0x2e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
__mutex_lock_common+0x1d0/0x2678 kernel/locking/mutex.c:598
__mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:760 [inline]
mutex_lock_nested+0x2c/0x38 kernel/locking/mutex.c:812
__btrfs_release_delayed_node+0xa0/0x9b0 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:290
btrfs_release_delayed_node fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:315 [inline]
btrfs_remove_delayed_node+0x68/0x84 fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c:1326
btrfs_evict_inode+0x578/0xe28 fs/btrfs/inode.c:5587
evict+0x414/0x928 fs/inode.c:810
iput_final fs/inode.c:1914 [inline]
iput+0x95c/0xad4 fs/inode.c:1966
iget_failed+0xec/0x134 fs/bad_inode.c:248
btrfs_read_locked_inode+0xe1c/0x1234 fs/btrfs/inode.c:4101
btrfs_iget+0x1b0/0x264 fs/btrfs/inode.c:5837
btrfs_run_defrag_inode fs/btrfs/defrag.c:237 [inline]
btrfs_run_defrag_inodes+0x520/0xdc4 fs/btrfs/defrag.c:309
cleaner_kthread+0x21c/0x418 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1516
kthread+0x5fc/0x75c kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:844
Fix this by releasing the path before calling iget_failed().
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-23036 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 6.13 with commit 69673992b1aea5540199d9b8b658ede72f55a6cf and fixed in 6.18.7 with commit 65241e3ddda60b53a4ee3ae12721fc9ee21d5827
Issue introduced in 6.13 with commit 69673992b1aea5540199d9b8b658ede72f55a6cf and fixed in 6.19-rc6 with commit 1e1f2055ad5a7a5d548789b334a4473a7665c418
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-2026-23036
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/inode.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/65241e3ddda60b53a4ee3ae12721fc9ee21d5827
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e1f2055ad5a7a5d548789b334a4473a7665c418
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