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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52668"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-17T14:01:52.768Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:31:21.860Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52668"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52668.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52668"
title: "btrfs: zoned: fix lock ordering in btrfs_zone_activate()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: zoned: fix lock ordering in btrfs_zone_activate()\n\nThe btrfs CI reported a lockdep warning as follows by running generic\ngeneric/129.\n\n   WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n   6.7.0-rc5+ #1 Not tainted\n   ------------------------------------------------------\n   kworker/u5:5/793427 is trying to acquire lock:\n   ffff88813256d028 (&cache-\u003elock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg+0x5e/0x130\n   but task is already holding lock:\n   ffff88810a23a318 (&fs_info-\u003ezone_active_bgs_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg+0x34/0x130\n   which lock already depends on the new lock.\n\n   the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:\n   -\u003e #1 (&fs_info-\u003ezone_active_bgs_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}:\n   ...\n   -\u003e #0 (&cache-\u003elock){+.+.}-{2:2}:\n   ...\n\nThis is because we take fs_info-\u003ezone_active_bgs_lock after a block_group's\nlock in btrfs_zone_activate() while doing the opposite in other places.\n\nFix the issue by expanding the fs_info-\u003ezone_active_bgs_lock's critical\nsection and taking it before a block_group's lock."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a7e1ac7bdc5af91af2d52e6269fdbd92fe9ee353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f74989f5909cdec9b1274641f0fa306b15bb476"},{"version":"a7e1ac7bdc5af91af2d52e6269fdbd92fe9ee353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1908e9d01e5395adff68d9d308a0fb15337e6272"},{"version":"a7e1ac7bdc5af91af2d52e6269fdbd92fe9ee353","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b18f3b60b35a8c01c9a2a0f0d6424c6d73971dc3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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