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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38365" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-25T12:47:35.387Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:01:22.398Z" 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-2025-38365" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38365.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38365" title: "btrfs: fix a race between renames and directory logging" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix a race between renames and directory logging\n\nWe have a race between a rename and directory inode logging that if it\nhappens and we crash/power fail before the rename completes, the next time\nthe filesystem is mounted, the log replay code will end up deleting the\nfile that was being renamed.\n\nThis is best explained following a step by step analysis of an interleaving\nof steps that lead into this situation.\n\nConsider the initial conditions:\n\n1) We are at transaction N;\n\n2) We have directories A and B created in a past transaction (\u003c N);\n\n3) We have inode X corresponding to a file that has 2 hardlinks, one in\n directory A and the other in directory B, so we'll name them as\n \"A/foo_link1\" and \"B/foo_link2\". Both hard links were persisted in a\n past transaction (\u003c N);\n\n4) We have inode Y corresponding to a file that as a single hard link and\n is located in directory A, we'll name it as \"A/bar\". This file was also\n persisted in a past transaction (\u003c N).\n\nThe steps leading to a file loss are the following and for all of them we\nare under transaction N:\n\n 1) Link \"A/foo_link1\" is removed, so inode's X last_unlink_trans field\n is updated to N, through btrfs_unlink() -\u003e btrfs_record_unlink_dir();\n\n 2) Task A starts a rename for inode Y, with the goal of renaming from\n \"A/bar\" to \"A/baz\", so we enter btrfs_rename();\n\n 3) Task A inserts the new BTRFS_INODE_REF_KEY for inode Y by calling\n btrfs_insert_inode_ref();\n\n 4) Because the rename happens in the same directory, we don't set the\n last_unlink_trans field of directoty A's inode to the current\n transaction id, that is, we don't cal btrfs_record_unlink_dir();\n\n 5) Task A then removes the entries from directory A (BTRFS_DIR_ITEM_KEY\n and BTRFS_DIR_INDEX_KEY items) when calling __btrfs_unlink_inode()\n (actually the dir index item is added as a delayed item, but the\n effect is the same);\n\n 6) Now before task A adds the new entry \"A/baz\" to directory A by\n calling btrfs_add_link(), another task, task B is logging inode X;\n\n 7) Task B starts a fsync of inode X and after logging inode X, at\n btrfs_log_inode_parent() it calls btrfs_log_all_parents(), since\n inode X has a last_unlink_trans value of N, set at in step 1;\n\n 8) At btrfs_log_all_parents() we search for all parent directories of\n inode X using the commit root, so we find directories A and B and log\n them. Bu when logging direct A, we don't have a dir index item for\n inode Y anymore, neither the old name \"A/bar\" nor for the new name\n \"A/baz\" since the rename has deleted the old name but has not yet\n inserted the new name - task A hasn't called yet btrfs_add_link() to\n do that.\n\n Note that logging directory A doesn't fallback to a transaction\n commit because its last_unlink_trans has a lower value than the\n current transaction's id (see step 4);\n\n 9) Task B finishes logging directories A and B and gets back to\n btrfs_sync_file() where it calls btrfs_sync_log() to persist the log\n tree;\n\n10) Task B successfully persisted the log tree, btrfs_sync_log() completed\n with success, and a power failure happened.\n\n We have a log tree without any directory entry for inode Y, so the\n log replay code deletes the entry for inode Y, name \"A/bar\", from the\n subvolume tree since it doesn't exist in the log tree and the log\n tree is authorative for its index (we logged a BTRFS_DIR_LOG_INDEX_KEY\n item that covers the index range for the dentry that corresponds to\n \"A/bar\").\n\n Since there's no other hard link for inode Y and the log replay code\n deletes the name \"A/bar\", the file is lost.\n\nThe issue wouldn't happen if task B synced the log only after task A\ncalled btrfs_log_new_name(), which would update the log with the new name\nfor inode Y (\"A/bar\").\n\nFix this by pinning the log root during renames before removing the old\ndirectory entry, and unpinning af\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"259c4b96d78dda8477a3ac21d6b3cf0eb9f75c8b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51bd363c7010d033d3334daf457c824484bf9bf0"},{"version":"259c4b96d78dda8477a3ac21d6b3cf0eb9f75c8b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aeeae8feeaae4445a86f9815273e81f902dc1f5b"},{"version":"259c4b96d78dda8477a3ac21d6b3cf0eb9f75c8b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2088895d5903082bb9021770b919e733c57edbc1"},{"version":"259c4b96d78dda8477a3ac21d6b3cf0eb9f75c8b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8c6874646c21bd820cf475e2874e62c133954023"},{"version":"259c4b96d78dda8477a3ac21d6b3cf0eb9f75c8b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ca864de852bc91007b32d2a0d48993724f4abad"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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