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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52897" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-08-21T06:10:37.316Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:35:06.319Z" 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-2023-52897" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52897.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52897" title: "btrfs: qgroup: do not warn on record without old_roots populated" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: qgroup: do not warn on record without old_roots populated\n\n[BUG]\nThere are some reports from the mailing list that since v6.1 kernel, the\nWARN_ON() inside btrfs_qgroup_account_extent() gets triggered during\nrescan:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6424 at fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:2756 btrfs_qgroup_account_extents+0x1ae/0x260 [btrfs]\n CPU: 3 PID: 6424 Comm: snapperd Tainted: P OE 6.1.2-1-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed 05c7a1b1b61d5627475528f71f50444637b5aad7\n RIP: 0010:btrfs_qgroup_account_extents+0x1ae/0x260 [btrfs]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n btrfs_commit_transaction+0x30c/0xb40 [btrfs c39c9c546c241c593f03bd6d5f39ea1b676250f6]\n ? start_transaction+0xc3/0x5b0 [btrfs c39c9c546c241c593f03bd6d5f39ea1b676250f6]\n btrfs_qgroup_rescan+0x42/0xc0 [btrfs c39c9c546c241c593f03bd6d5f39ea1b676250f6]\n btrfs_ioctl+0x1ab9/0x25c0 [btrfs c39c9c546c241c593f03bd6d5f39ea1b676250f6]\n ? __rseq_handle_notify_resume+0xa9/0x4a0\n ? mntput_no_expire+0x4a/0x240\n ? __seccomp_filter+0x319/0x4d0\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x90/0xd0\n do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x80\n ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x17/0x40\n ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n RIP: 0033:0x7fd9b790d9bf\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n[CAUSE]\nSince commit e15e9f43c7ca (\"btrfs: introduce\nBTRFS_QGROUP_RUNTIME_FLAG_NO_ACCOUNTING to skip qgroup accounting\"), if\nour qgroup is already in inconsistent state, we will no longer do the\ntime-consuming backref walk.\n\nThis can leave some qgroup records without a valid old_roots ulist.\nNormally this is fine, as btrfs_qgroup_account_extents() would also skip\nthose records if we have NO_ACCOUNTING flag set.\n\nBut there is a small window, if we have NO_ACCOUNTING flag set, and\ninserted some qgroup_record without a old_roots ulist, but then the user\ntriggered a qgroup rescan.\n\nDuring btrfs_qgroup_rescan(), we firstly clear NO_ACCOUNTING flag, then\ncommit current transaction.\n\nAnd since we have a qgroup_record with old_roots = NULL, we trigger the\nWARN_ON() during btrfs_qgroup_account_extents().\n\n[FIX]\nUnfortunately due to the introduction of NO_ACCOUNTING flag, the\nassumption that every qgroup_record would have its old_roots populated\nis no longer correct.\n\nFix the false alerts and drop the WARN_ON()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e15e9f43c7ca25603fcf4c20d44ec777726f1034","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb2c2e62539f2b63c5e0beb51501d328260c7595"},{"version":"e15e9f43c7ca25603fcf4c20d44ec777726f1034","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75181406b4eafacc531ff2ee5fb032bd93317e2b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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