linux-cve-announce - CVE-2026-23181: btrfs: sync read disk super and set block size

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Message-ID: <2026021429-CVE-2026-23181-7c82@gregkh>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:28:38 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-23181: btrfs: sync read disk super and set block size

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

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

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

btrfs: sync read disk super and set block size

When the user performs a btrfs mount, the block device is not set
correctly. The user sets the block size of the block device to 0x4000
by executing the BLKBSZSET command.
Since the block size change also changes the mapping->flags value, this
further affects the result of the mapping_min_folio_order() calculation.

Let's analyze the following two scenarios:

Scenario 1: Without executing the BLKBSZSET command, the block size is
0x1000, and mapping_min_folio_order() returns 0;

Scenario 2: After executing the BLKBSZSET command, the block size is
0x4000, and mapping_min_folio_order() returns 2.

do_read_cache_folio() allocates a folio before the BLKBSZSET command
is executed. This results in the allocated folio having an order value
of 0. Later, after BLKBSZSET is executed, the block size increases to
0x4000, and the mapping_min_folio_order() calculation result becomes 2.

This leads to two undesirable consequences:

1. filemap_add_folio() triggers a VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_order(folio) <
mapping_min_folio_order(mapping)) assertion.

2. The syzbot report [1] shows a null pointer dereference in
create_empty_buffers() due to a buffer head allocation failure.

Synchronization should be established based on the inode between the
BLKBSZSET command and read cache page to prevent inconsistencies in
block size or mapping flags before and after folio allocation.

[1]
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
RIP: 0010:create_empty_buffers+0x4d/0x480 fs/buffer.c:1694
Call Trace:
 folio_create_buffers+0x109/0x150 fs/buffer.c:1802
 block_read_full_folio+0x14c/0x850 fs/buffer.c:2403
 filemap_read_folio+0xc8/0x2a0 mm/filemap.c:2496
 do_read_cache_folio+0x266/0x5c0 mm/filemap.c:4096
 do_read_cache_page mm/filemap.c:4162 [inline]
 read_cache_page_gfp+0x29/0x120 mm/filemap.c:4195
 btrfs_read_disk_super+0x192/0x500 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:1367

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-23181 to this issue.

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

	Fixed in 6.18.10 with commit ccb3c75d57039adb3170ae54a0d470e359705984
	Fixed in 6.19 with commit 3f29d661e5686f3aa14e6f11537ff5c49846f2e2

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-2026-23181
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/volumes.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/ccb3c75d57039adb3170ae54a0d470e359705984
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f29d661e5686f3aa14e6f11537ff5c49846f2e2