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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-22115" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-16T14:13:01.293Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:36:17.108Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" 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-2025-22115" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-22115.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22115" title: "btrfs: fix block group refcount race in btrfs_create_pending_block_groups()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix block group refcount race in btrfs_create_pending_block_groups()\n\nBlock group creation is done in two phases, which results in a slightly\nunintuitive property: a block group can be allocated/deallocated from\nafter btrfs_make_block_group() adds it to the space_info with\nbtrfs_add_bg_to_space_info(), but before creation is completely completed\nin btrfs_create_pending_block_groups(). As a result, it is possible for a\nblock group to go unused and have 'btrfs_mark_bg_unused' called on it\nconcurrently with 'btrfs_create_pending_block_groups'. This causes a\nnumber of issues, which were fixed with the block group flag\n'BLOCK_GROUP_FLAG_NEW'.\n\nHowever, this fix is not quite complete. Since it does not use the\nunused_bg_lock, it is possible for the following race to occur:\n\nbtrfs_create_pending_block_groups btrfs_mark_bg_unused\n if list_empty // false\n list_del_init\n clear_bit\n else if (test_bit) // true\n list_move_tail\n\nAnd we get into the exact same broken ref count and invalid new_bgs\nstate for transaction cleanup that BLOCK_GROUP_FLAG_NEW was designed to\nprevent.\n\nThe broken refcount aspect will result in a warning like:\n\n [1272.943527] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n [1272.943967] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 61 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110\n [1272.944731] Modules linked in: btrfs virtio_net xor zstd_compress raid6_pq null_blk [last unloaded: btrfs]\n [1272.945550] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 61 Comm: kworker/u32:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.14.0-rc5+ #108\n [1272.946368] Tainted: [W]=WARN\n [1272.946585] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014\n [1272.947273] Workqueue: btrfs_discard btrfs_discard_workfn [btrfs]\n [1272.947788] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110\n [1272.949532] RSP: 0018:ffffbf1200247df0 EFLAGS: 00010282\n [1272.949901] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa14b00e3f800 RCX: 0000000000000000\n [1272.950437] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffbf1200247c78 RDI: 00000000ffffdfff\n [1272.950986] RBP: ffffa14b00dc2860 R08: 00000000ffffdfff R09: ffffffff90526268\n [1272.951512] R10: ffffffff904762c0 R11: 0000000063666572 R12: ffffa14b00dc28c0\n [1272.952024] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffa14b00dc2868 R15: 000001285dcd12c0\n [1272.952850] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa14d33c40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n [1272.953458] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n [1272.953931] CR2: 00007f838cbda000 CR3: 000000010104e000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\n [1272.954474] Call Trace:\n [1272.954655] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [1272.954812] ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110\n [1272.955173] ? __warn.cold+0x93/0xd7\n [1272.955487] ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110\n [1272.955816] ? report_bug+0xe7/0x120\n [1272.956103] ? handle_bug+0x53/0x90\n [1272.956424] ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60\n [1272.956700] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20\n [1272.957011] ? refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110\n [1272.957399] btrfs_discard_cancel_work.cold+0x26/0x2b [btrfs]\n [1272.957853] btrfs_put_block_group.cold+0x5d/0x8e [btrfs]\n [1272.958289] btrfs_discard_workfn+0x194/0x380 [btrfs]\n [1272.958729] process_one_work+0x130/0x290\n [1272.959026] worker_thread+0x2ea/0x420\n [1272.959335] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n [1272.959644] kthread+0xd7/0x1c0\n [1272.959872] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [1272.960172] ret_from_fork+0x30/0x50\n [1272.960474] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n [1272.960745] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n [1272.961035] \u003c/TASK\u003e\n [1272.961238] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nThough we have seen them in the async discard workfn as well. It is\nmost likely to happen after a relocation finishes which cancels discard,\ntears down the block group, etc.\n\nFix this fully by taking the lock arou\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0657b20c5a76c938612f8409735a8830d257866e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77fd40b7ed0c3acf989a0f2a07b15a0a59ea8f96"},{"version":"0657b20c5a76c938612f8409735a8830d257866e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee56da95f8962b86fec4ef93f866e64c8d025a58"},{"version":"0657b20c5a76c938612f8409735a8830d257866e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9d383a6fc59271aaaf07a33b23b2eac5b9268b7a"},{"version":"0657b20c5a76c938612f8409735a8830d257866e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d8e5168d48a91e7a802d3003e72afb4304bebfa"},{"version":"6297644db23f77c02ae7961cc542d162629ae2c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"7569c4294ba6ff9f194635b14876198f8a687c4a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.47","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.4.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","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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