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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54121"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T13:06:41.185Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:17:24.043Z"
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-2023-54121"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54121.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54121"
title: "btrfs: fix incorrect splitting in btrfs_drop_extent_map_range"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix incorrect splitting in btrfs_drop_extent_map_range\n\nIn production we were seeing a variety of WARN_ON()'s in the extent_map\ncode, specifically in btrfs_drop_extent_map_range() when we have to call\nadd_extent_mapping() for our second split.\n\nConsider the following extent map layout\n\n\tPINNED\n\t[0 16K)  [32K, 48K)\n\nand then we call btrfs_drop_extent_map_range for [0, 36K), with\nskip_pinned == true.  The initial loop will have\n\n\tstart = 0\n\tend = 36K\n\tlen = 36K\n\nwe will find the [0, 16k) extent, but since we are pinned we will skip\nit, which has this code\n\n\tstart = em_end;\n\tif (end != (u64)-1)\n\t\tlen = start + len - em_end;\n\nem_end here is 16K, so now the values are\n\n\tstart = 16K\n\tlen = 16K + 36K - 16K = 36K\n\nlen should instead be 20K.  This is a problem when we find the next\nextent at [32K, 48K), we need to split this extent to leave [36K, 48k),\nhowever the code for the split looks like this\n\n\tsplit-\u003estart = start + len;\n\tsplit-\u003elen = em_end - (start + len);\n\nIn this case we have\n\n\tem_end = 48K\n\tsplit-\u003estart = 16K + 36K       // this should be 16K + 20K\n\tsplit-\u003elen = 48K - (16K + 36K) // this overflows as 16K + 36K is 52K\n\nand now we have an invalid extent_map in the tree that potentially\noverlaps other entries in the extent map.  Even in the non-overlapping\ncase we will have split-\u003estart set improperly, which will cause problems\nwith any block related calculations.\n\nWe don't actually need len in this loop, we can simply use end as our\nend point, and only adjust start up when we find a pinned extent we need\nto skip.\n\nAdjust the logic to do this, which keeps us from inserting an invalid\nextent map.\n\nWe only skip_pinned in the relocation case, so this is relatively rare,\nexcept in the case where you are running relocation a lot, which can\nhappen with auto relocation on."
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