# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40235"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T15:31:25.785Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:45:24.427Z"
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-2025-40235"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40235.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40235"
title: "btrfs: directly free partially initialized fs_info in btrfs_check_leaked_roots()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: directly free partially initialized fs_info in btrfs_check_leaked_roots()\n\nIf fs_info-\u003esuper_copy or fs_info-\u003esuper_for_commit allocated failed in\nbtrfs_get_tree_subvol(), then no need to call btrfs_free_fs_info().\nOtherwise btrfs_check_leaked_roots() would access NULL pointer because\nfs_info-\u003eallocated_roots had not been initialised.\n\nsyzkaller reported the following information:\n  ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffbb0\n  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n  PGD 64c9067 P4D 64c9067 PUD 64cb067 PMD 0\n  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\n  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1402 Comm: syz.1.35 Not tainted 6.15.8 #4 PREEMPT(lazy)\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), (...)\n  RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23 [inline]\n  RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457 [inline]\n  RIP: 0010:atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:33 [inline]\n  RIP: 0010:refcount_read include/linux/refcount.h:170 [inline]\n  RIP: 0010:btrfs_check_leaked_roots+0x18f/0x2c0 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1230\n  [...]\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   btrfs_free_fs_info+0x310/0x410 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:1280\n   btrfs_get_tree_subvol+0x592/0x6b0 fs/btrfs/super.c:2029\n   btrfs_get_tree+0x63/0x80 fs/btrfs/super.c:2097\n   vfs_get_tree+0x98/0x320 fs/super.c:1759\n   do_new_mount+0x357/0x660 fs/namespace.c:3899\n   path_mount+0x716/0x19c0 fs/namespace.c:4226\n   do_mount fs/namespace.c:4239 [inline]\n   __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4450 [inline]\n   __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4427 [inline]\n   __x64_sys_mount+0x28c/0x310 fs/namespace.c:4427\n   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n   do_syscall_64+0x92/0x180 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n  RIP: 0033:0x7f032eaffa8d\n  [...]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3bb17a25bcb09abbd667c6ac86c7c9109ae82bcd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1c2b4e6ffd307720ab6ce42f6749b0c02ba0a73"},{"version":"3bb17a25bcb09abbd667c6ac86c7c9109ae82bcd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c2b2d4d053e9840e6da6ed581befa20309f281a"},{"version":"3bb17a25bcb09abbd667c6ac86c7c9109ae82bcd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17679ac6df6c4830ba711835aa8cf961be36cfa1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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