CVE-2025-37856 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-37856

btrfs: harden block_group::bg_list against list_del() races

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: harden block_group::bg_list against list_del() races As far as I can tell, these calls of list_del_init() on bg_list cannot run concurrently with btrfs_mark_bg_unused() or btrfs_mark_bg_to_reclaim(), as they are in transaction error paths and situations where the block group is readonly. However, if there is any chance at all of racing with mark_bg_unused(), or a different future user of bg_list, better to be safe than sorry. Otherwise we risk the following interleaving (bg_list refcount in parens) T1 (some random op) T2 (btrfs_mark_bg_unused) !list_empty(&bg->bg_list); (1) list_del_init(&bg->bg_list); (1) list_move_tail (1) btrfs_put_block_group (0) btrfs_delete_unused_bgs bg = list_first_entry list_del_init(&bg->bg_list); btrfs_put_block_group(bg); (-1) Ultimately, this results in a broken ref count that hits zero one deref early and the real final deref underflows the refcount, resulting in a WARNING.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
a9f189716cf15913c453299d72f69c51a9b0f86b, edf3b5aadb2515c808200b904baa5b70a727f0ac, 01eca70ef8cf499d0cb6d1bbd691558e7792cf17, 5d19abcffd8404078dfa7d7118cec357b5e7bc58, 5.15.128, 6.1.47, 6.4.12, 6.5, 0, 6.12.24, 6.13.12, 6.14.3, 6.15

Timeline

Official Publish: May 9th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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