CVE-2025-38059
Published: Jun 18, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: avoid NULL pointer dereference if no valid csum tree [BUG] When trying read-only scrub on a btrfs with rescue=idatacsums mount option, it will crash with the following call trace: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000208 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 835 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G O 6.15.0-rc3-custom+ #236 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022 RIP: 0010:btrfs_lookup_csums_bitmap+0x49/0x480 [btrfs] Call Trace: <TASK> scrub_find_fill_first_stripe+0x35b/0x3d0 [btrfs] scrub_simple_mirror+0x175/0x290 [btrfs] scrub_stripe+0x5f7/0x6f0 [btrfs] scrub_chunk+0x9a/0x150 [btrfs] scrub_enumerate_chunks+0x333/0x660 [btrfs] btrfs_scrub_dev+0x23e/0x600 [btrfs] btrfs_ioctl+0x1dcf/0x2f80 [btrfs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x4f/0x120 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [CAUSE] Mount option "rescue=idatacsums" will completely skip loading the csum tree, so that any data read will not find any data csum thus we will ignore data checksum verification. Normally call sites utilizing csum tree will check the fs state flag NO_DATA_CSUMS bit, but unfortunately scrub does not check that bit at all. This results in scrub to call btrfs_search_slot() on a NULL pointer and triggered above crash. [FIX] Check both extent and csum tree root before doing any tree search.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 74ef00185eb864252156022ff129b01549504175 - < 50d0de59f66cbe6d597481e099bf1c70fd07e0a9affected 74ef00185eb864252156022ff129b01549504175 - < 6e9770de024964b1017f99ee94f71967bd6edaebaffected 74ef00185eb864252156022ff129b01549504175 - < d35bed14b0bc95c6845863a3744ecd10b888c830affected 74ef00185eb864252156022ff129b01549504175 - < f95d186255b319c48a365d47b69bd997fecb674e |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.9unaffected 0 - < 5.9unaffected 6.6.93 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.12.31 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.14.9 - <= 6.14.*+1 more versions |
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