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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53865" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-09T01:30:34.588Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:31:37.051Z" 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-2023-53865" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53865.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53865" title: "btrfs: fix warning when putting transaction with qgroups enabled after abort" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix warning when putting transaction with qgroups enabled after abort\n\nIf we have a transaction abort with qgroups enabled we get a warning\ntriggered when doing the final put on the transaction, like this:\n\n [552.6789] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n [552.6815] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 81745 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:144 btrfs_put_transaction+0x123/0x130 [btrfs]\n [552.6817] Modules linked in: btrfs blake2b_generic xor (...)\n [552.6819] CPU: 4 PID: 81745 Comm: btrfs-transacti Tainted: G W 6.4.0-rc6-btrfs-next-134+ #1\n [552.6819] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n [552.6819] RIP: 0010:btrfs_put_transaction+0x123/0x130 [btrfs]\n [552.6821] Code: bd a0 01 00 (...)\n [552.6821] RSP: 0018:ffffa168c0527e28 EFLAGS: 00010286\n [552.6821] RAX: ffff936042caed00 RBX: ffff93604a3eb448 RCX: 0000000000000000\n [552.6821] RDX: ffff93606421b028 RSI: ffffffff92ff0878 RDI: ffff93606421b010\n [552.6821] RBP: ffff93606421b000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffa168c0d07c20\n [552.6821] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff93608dc52950 R12: ffffa168c0527e70\n [552.6821] R13: ffff93606421b000 R14: ffff93604a3eb420 R15: ffff93606421b028\n [552.6821] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff93675fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n [552.6821] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n [552.6821] CR2: 0000558ad262b000 CR3: 000000014feda005 CR4: 0000000000370ee0\n [552.6822] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n [552.6822] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n [552.6822] Call Trace:\n [552.6822] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [552.6822] ? __warn+0x80/0x130\n [552.6822] ? btrfs_put_transaction+0x123/0x130 [btrfs]\n [552.6824] ? report_bug+0x1f4/0x200\n [552.6824] ? handle_bug+0x42/0x70\n [552.6824] ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70\n [552.6824] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20\n [552.6824] ? btrfs_put_transaction+0x123/0x130 [btrfs]\n [552.6826] btrfs_cleanup_transaction+0xe7/0x5e0 [btrfs]\n [552.6828] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x40\n [552.6828] ? try_to_wake_up+0x94/0x5e0\n [552.6828] ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10\n [552.6828] transaction_kthread+0x103/0x1d0 [btrfs]\n [552.6830] ? __pfx_transaction_kthread+0x10/0x10 [btrfs]\n [552.6832] kthread+0xee/0x120\n [552.6832] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [552.6832] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50\n [552.6832] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n [552.6832] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nThis corresponds to this line of code:\n\n void btrfs_put_transaction(struct btrfs_transaction *transaction)\n {\n (...)\n WARN_ON(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(\n &transaction-\u003edelayed_refs.dirty_extent_root));\n (...)\n }\n\nThe warning happens because btrfs_qgroup_destroy_extent_records(), called\nin the transaction abort path, we free all entries from the rbtree\n\"dirty_extent_root\" with rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe(), but we\ndon't actually empty the rbtree - it's still pointing to nodes that were\nfreed.\n\nSo set the rbtree's root node to NULL to avoid this warning (assign\nRB_ROOT)." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"40ea30638d20c92b44107247415842b72c460459","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae91ab710d8e309f6c9eba07ce0d9d0b5d9040f0"},{"version":"81f7eb00ff5bb8326e82503a32809421d14abb8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2c667cc18314c9bad3ec86ae071c0342132aa09"},{"version":"81f7eb00ff5bb8326e82503a32809421d14abb8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9060caab4135dd660c4676d1ea33a6e0d3fc09d"},{"version":"81f7eb00ff5bb8326e82503a32809421d14abb8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89e994688e965813ec0a09fb30b87fb8cee06474"},{"version":"81f7eb00ff5bb8326e82503a32809421d14abb8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"62dd82bc7a90b5052c062a0ad5be6d8a479a3cfb"},{"version":"81f7eb00ff5bb8326e82503a32809421d14abb8a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aa84ce8a78a1a5c10cdf9c7a5fb0c999fbc2c8d6"},{"version":"4e2e49d4211db43e0ec932579dab6a969e7e8df1","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.23","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.251"},{"version":"5.5.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"version":"5.4.251","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.123","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","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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