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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37931" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-20T15:21:56.627Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:58:27.222Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-37931" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37931.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37931" title: "btrfs: adjust subpage bit start based on sectorsize" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: adjust subpage bit start based on sectorsize\n\nWhen running machines with 64k page size and a 16k nodesize we started\nseeing tree log corruption in production. This turned out to be because\nwe were not writing out dirty blocks sometimes, so this in fact affects\nall metadata writes.\n\nWhen writing out a subpage EB we scan the subpage bitmap for a dirty\nrange. If the range isn't dirty we do\n\n\tbit_start++;\n\nto move onto the next bit. The problem is the bitmap is based on the\nnumber of sectors that an EB has. So in this case, we have a 64k\npagesize, 16k nodesize, but a 4k sectorsize. This means our bitmap is 4\nbits for every node. With a 64k page size we end up with 4 nodes per\npage.\n\nTo make this easier this is how everything looks\n\n[0 16k 32k 48k ] logical address\n[0 4 8 12 ] radix tree offset\n[ 64k page ] folio\n[ 16k eb ][ 16k eb ][ 16k eb ][ 16k eb ] extent buffers\n[ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ] bitmap\n\nNow we use all of our addressing based on fs_info-\u003esectorsize_bits, so\nas you can see the above our 16k eb-\u003estart turns into radix entry 4.\n\nWhen we find a dirty range for our eb, we correctly do bit_start +=\nsectors_per_node, because if we start at bit 0, the next bit for the\nnext eb is 4, to correspond to eb-\u003estart 16k.\n\nHowever if our range is clean, we will do bit_start++, which will now\nput us offset from our radix tree entries.\n\nIn our case, assume that the first time we check the bitmap the block is\nnot dirty, we increment bit_start so now it == 1, and then we loop\naround and check again. This time it is dirty, and we go to find that\nstart using the following equation\n\n\tstart = folio_start + bit_start * fs_info-\u003esectorsize;\n\nso in the case above, eb-\u003estart 0 is now dirty, and we calculate start\nas\n\n\t0 + 1 * fs_info-\u003esectorsize = 4096\n\t4096 \u003e\u003e 12 = 1\n\nNow we're looking up the radix tree for 1, and we won't find an eb.\nWhat's worse is now we're using bit_start == 1, so we do bit_start +=\nsectors_per_node, which is now 5. If that eb is dirty we will run into\nthe same thing, we will look at an offset that is not populated in the\nradix tree, and now we're skipping the writeout of dirty extent buffers.\n\nThe best fix for this is to not use sectorsize_bits to address nodes,\nbut that's a larger change. Since this is a fs corruption problem fix\nit simply by always using sectors_per_node to increment the start bit." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c4aec299fa8f73f0fd10bc556f936f0da50e3e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5111b148360f50cac9abbae8fca44cc0ac4bf9bf"},{"version":"c4aec299fa8f73f0fd10bc556f936f0da50e3e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"977849e8acd2466ac3cb49e04a3ecc73837f6b90"},{"version":"c4aec299fa8f73f0fd10bc556f936f0da50e3e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b80db09b614cb7edec5bada1bc7c7b0eb3b453ea"},{"version":"c4aec299fa8f73f0fd10bc556f936f0da50e3e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"396f4002710030ea1cfd4c789ebaf0a6969ab34f"},{"version":"c4aec299fa8f73f0fd10bc556f936f0da50e3e83","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e08e49d986f82c30f42ad0ed43ebbede1e1e3739"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"6.1.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.105","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.6","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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