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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-49868" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:01:10.722Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:40:47.334Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" 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-2024-49868" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49868.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49868" title: "btrfs: fix a NULL pointer dereference when failed to start a new trasacntion" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix a NULL pointer dereference when failed to start a new trasacntion\n\n[BUG]\nSyzbot reported a NULL pointer dereference with the following crash:\n\n FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.\n start_transaction+0x830/0x1670 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:676\n prepare_to_relocate+0x31f/0x4c0 fs/btrfs/relocation.c:3642\n relocate_block_group+0x169/0xd20 fs/btrfs/relocation.c:3678\n ...\n BTRFS info (device loop0): balance: ended with status: -12\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000cc: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000660-0x0000000000000667]\n RIP: 0010:btrfs_update_reloc_root+0x362/0xa80 fs/btrfs/relocation.c:926\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n commit_fs_roots+0x2ee/0x720 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:1496\n btrfs_commit_transaction+0xfaf/0x3740 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2430\n del_balance_item fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3678 [inline]\n reset_balance_state+0x25e/0x3c0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:3742\n btrfs_balance+0xead/0x10c0 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4574\n btrfs_ioctl_balance+0x493/0x7c0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3673\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\n[CAUSE]\nThe allocation failure happens at the start_transaction() inside\nprepare_to_relocate(), and during the error handling we call\nunset_reloc_control(), which makes fs_info-\u003ebalance_ctl to be NULL.\n\nThen we continue the error path cleanup in btrfs_balance() by calling\nreset_balance_state() which will call del_balance_item() to fully delete\nthe balance item in the root tree.\n\nHowever during the small window between set_reloc_contrl() and\nunset_reloc_control(), we can have a subvolume tree update and created a\nreloc_root for that subvolume.\n\nThen we go into the final btrfs_commit_transaction() of\ndel_balance_item(), and into btrfs_update_reloc_root() inside\ncommit_fs_roots().\n\nThat function checks if fs_info-\u003ereloc_ctl is in the merge_reloc_tree\nstage, but since fs_info-\u003ereloc_ctl is NULL, it results a NULL pointer\ndereference.\n\n[FIX]\nJust add extra check on fs_info-\u003ereloc_ctl inside\nbtrfs_update_reloc_root(), before checking\nfs_info-\u003ereloc_ctl-\u003emerge_reloc_tree.\n\nThat DEAD_RELOC_TREE handling is to prevent further modification to the\nreloc tree during merge stage, but since there is no reloc_ctl at all,\nwe do not need to bother that." affected: 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