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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-57975" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:07:03.586Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:35:46.066Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" 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-2024-57975" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-57975.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57975" title: "btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when run_delalloc_nocow() failed" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: do proper folio cleanup when run_delalloc_nocow() failed\n\n[BUG]\nWith CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set, test case generic/476 has some chance to crash\nwith the following VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO():\n\n BTRFS error (device dm-3): cow_file_range failed, start 1146880 end 1253375 len 106496 ret -28\n BTRFS error (device dm-3): run_delalloc_nocow failed, start 1146880 end 1253375 len 106496 ret -28\n page: refcount:4 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000592787cc index:0x12 pfn:0x10664\n aops:btrfs_aops [btrfs] ino:101 dentry name(?):\"f1774\"\n flags: 0x2fffff80004028(uptodate|lru|private|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff)\n page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio))\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n kernel BUG at mm/page-writeback.c:2992!\n Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP\n CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 3943513 Comm: kworker/u24:15 Tainted: G OE 6.12.0-rc7-custom+ #87\n Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE\n Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022\n Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space [btrfs]\n pc : folio_clear_dirty_for_io+0x128/0x258\n lr : folio_clear_dirty_for_io+0x128/0x258\n Call trace:\n folio_clear_dirty_for_io+0x128/0x258\n btrfs_folio_clamp_clear_dirty+0x80/0xd0 [btrfs]\n __process_folios_contig+0x154/0x268 [btrfs]\n extent_clear_unlock_delalloc+0x5c/0x80 [btrfs]\n run_delalloc_nocow+0x5f8/0x760 [btrfs]\n btrfs_run_delalloc_range+0xa8/0x220 [btrfs]\n writepage_delalloc+0x230/0x4c8 [btrfs]\n extent_writepage+0xb8/0x358 [btrfs]\n extent_write_cache_pages+0x21c/0x4e8 [btrfs]\n btrfs_writepages+0x94/0x150 [btrfs]\n do_writepages+0x74/0x190\n filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x88/0xc8\n start_delalloc_inodes+0x178/0x3a8 [btrfs]\n btrfs_start_delalloc_roots+0x174/0x280 [btrfs]\n shrink_delalloc+0x114/0x280 [btrfs]\n flush_space+0x250/0x2f8 [btrfs]\n btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space+0x180/0x228 [btrfs]\n process_one_work+0x164/0x408\n worker_thread+0x25c/0x388\n kthread+0x100/0x118\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n Code: 910a8021 a90363f7 a9046bf9 94012379 (d4210000)\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\n[CAUSE]\nThe first two lines of extra debug messages show the problem is caused\nby the error handling of run_delalloc_nocow().\n\nE.g. we have the following dirtied range (4K blocksize 4K page size):\n\n 0 16K 32K\n |//////////////////////////////////////|\n | Pre-allocated |\n\nAnd the range [0, 16K) has a preallocated extent.\n\n- Enter run_delalloc_nocow() for range [0, 16K)\n Which found range [0, 16K) is preallocated, can do the proper NOCOW\n write.\n\n- Enter fallback_to_fow() for range [16K, 32K)\n Since the range [16K, 32K) is not backed by preallocated extent, we\n have to go COW.\n\n- cow_file_range() failed for range [16K, 32K)\n So cow_file_range() will do the clean up by clearing folio dirty,\n unlock the folios.\n\n Now the folios in range [16K, 32K) is unlocked.\n\n- Enter extent_clear_unlock_delalloc() from run_delalloc_nocow()\n Which is called with PAGE_START_WRITEBACK to start page writeback.\n But folios can only be marked writeback when it's properly locked,\n thus this triggered the VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO().\n\nFurthermore there is another hidden but common bug that\nrun_delalloc_nocow() is not clearing the folio dirty flags in its error\nhandling path.\nThis is the common bug shared between run_delalloc_nocow() and\ncow_file_range().\n\n[FIX]\n- Clear folio dirty for range [@start, @cur_offset)\n Introduce a helper, cleanup_dirty_folios(), which\n will find and lock the folio in the range, clear the dirty flag and\n start/end the writeback, with the extra handling for the\n @locked_folio.\n\n- Introduce a helper to clear folio dirty, start and end writeback\n\n- Introduce a helper to record the last failed COW range end\n This is to trace which range we should skip, to avoid double\n unlocking.\n\n- Skip the failed COW range for the e\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"17ca04aff7e6171df684b7b65804df8830eb8c15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"545d6893d3a34737d000af103e1557c592075c41"},{"version":"17ca04aff7e6171df684b7b65804df8830eb8c15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ae72abbf91eb172ce3a838a4dc34be3c9707296"},{"version":"17ca04aff7e6171df684b7b65804df8830eb8c15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2434533f1c963e7317c45880c98287e5bed98325"},{"version":"17ca04aff7e6171df684b7b65804df8830eb8c15","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c2b47df81c8e20a8e8cd94f0d7df211137ae94ed"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","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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