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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53618"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:19:25.303Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:30:09.733Z"
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-2023-53618"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53618.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53618"
title: "btrfs: reject invalid reloc tree root keys with stack dump"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: reject invalid reloc tree root keys with stack dump\n\n[BUG]\nSyzbot reported a crash that an ASSERT() got triggered inside\nprepare_to_merge().\n\nThat ASSERT() makes sure the reloc tree is properly pointed back by its\nsubvolume tree.\n\n[CAUSE]\nAfter more debugging output, it turns out we had an invalid reloc tree:\n\n  BTRFS error (device loop1): reloc tree mismatch, root 8 has no reloc root, expect reloc root key (-8, 132, 8) gen 17\n\nNote the above root key is (TREE_RELOC_OBJECTID, ROOT_ITEM,\nQUOTA_TREE_OBJECTID), meaning it's a reloc tree for quota tree.\n\nBut reloc trees can only exist for subvolumes, as for non-subvolume\ntrees, we just COW the involved tree block, no need to create a reloc\ntree since those tree blocks won't be shared with other trees.\n\nOnly subvolumes tree can share tree blocks with other trees (thus they\nhave BTRFS_ROOT_SHAREABLE flag).\n\nThus this new debug output proves my previous assumption that corrupted\non-disk data can trigger that ASSERT().\n\n[FIX]\nBesides the dedicated fix and the graceful exit, also let tree-checker to\ncheck such root keys, to make sure reloc trees can only exist for subvolumes."
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