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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53339"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-17T14:56:33.114Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:43:02.231Z"
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-2023-53339"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53339.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53339"
title: "btrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance\n\nPausing and canceling balance can race to interrupt balance lead to BUG_ON\npanic in btrfs_cancel_balance. The BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance\ndoes not take this race scenario into account.\n\nHowever, the race condition has no other side effects. We can fix that.\n\nReproducing it with panic trace like this:\n\n  kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4618!\n  RIP: 0010:btrfs_cancel_balance+0x5cf/0x6a0\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   ? do_nanosleep+0x60/0x120\n   ? hrtimer_nanosleep+0xb7/0x1a0\n   ? sched_core_clone_cookie+0x70/0x70\n   btrfs_ioctl_balance_ctl+0x55/0x70\n   btrfs_ioctl+0xa46/0xd20\n   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7d/0xa0\n   do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\n  Race scenario as follows:\n  \u003e mutex_unlock(&fs_info-\u003ebalance_mutex);\n  \u003e --------------------\n  \u003e .......issue pause and cancel req in another thread\n  \u003e --------------------\n  \u003e ret = __btrfs_balance(fs_info);\n  \u003e\n  \u003e mutex_lock(&fs_info-\u003ebalance_mutex);\n  \u003e if (ret == -ECANCELED && atomic_read(&fs_info-\u003ebalance_pause_req)) {\n  \u003e         btrfs_info(fs_info, \"balance: paused\");\n  \u003e         btrfs_exclop_balance(fs_info, BTRFS_EXCLOP_BALANCE_PAUSED);\n  \u003e }"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ddf7e8984c83aee9122552529f4e77291903f8d9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ceb9ba8e30833a4823e2dc73f80ebcdf2498d01a"},{"version":"72efe5d44821e38540888a5fe3ff3d0faab6acad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae81329f7de3aa6f34ecdfa5412e72161a30e9ce"},{"version":"b19c98f237cd76981aaded52c258ce93f7daa8cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29eefa6d0d07e185f7bfe9576f91e6dba98189c2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.42","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.47"},{"version":"6.4.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4.12"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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