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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53284"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-26T19:40:45.444Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:42:25.001Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53284"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53284.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53284"
title: "btrfs: only release the dirty pages io tree after successful writes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: only release the dirty pages io tree after successful writes\n\n[WARNING]\nWith extra warning on dirty extent buffers at umount (aka, the next\npatch in the series), test case generic/388 can trigger the following\nwarning about dirty extent buffers at unmount time:\n\n  BTRFS critical (device dm-2 state E): emergency shutdown\n  BTRFS error (device dm-2 state E): error while writing out transaction: -30\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state E): Skipping commit of aborted transaction.\n  BTRFS error (device dm-2 state EA): Transaction 9 aborted (error -30)\n  BTRFS: error (device dm-2 state EA) in cleanup_transaction:2068: errno=-30 Readonly filesystem\n  BTRFS info (device dm-2 state EA): forced readonly\n  BTRFS info (device dm-2 state EA): last unmount of filesystem 4fbf2e15-f941-49a0-bc7c-716315d2777c\n  ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  WARNING: disk-io.c:3311 at invalidate_and_check_btree_folios+0xfd/0x1ca [btrfs], CPU#8: umount/914368\n  CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 914368 Comm: umount Tainted: G           OE       7.1.0-rc1-custom+ #372 PREEMPT(full)  2de38db8d1deae71fde295430a0ff3ab98ccf596\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022\n  RIP: 0010:invalidate_and_check_btree_folios+0xfd/0x1ca [btrfs]\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   close_ctree+0x52e/0x574 [btrfs d2f0b1cd330d1287e7a9919d112eadfc0e914efd]\n   generic_shutdown_super+0x89/0x1a0\n   kill_anon_super+0x16/0x40\n   btrfs_kill_super+0x16/0x20 [btrfs d2f0b1cd330d1287e7a9919d112eadfc0e914efd]\n   deactivate_locked_super+0x2d/0xb0\n   cleanup_mnt+0xdc/0x140\n   task_work_run+0x5a/0xa0\n   exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x123/0x4b0\n   do_syscall_64+0x243/0x7c0\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state EA): unable to release extent buffer 30539776 owner 9 gen 9 refs 2 flags 0x7\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state EA): unable to release extent buffer 30621696 owner 257 gen 9 refs 2 flags 0x7\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state EA): unable to release extent buffer 30638080 owner 258 gen 9 refs 2 flags 0x7\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state EA): unable to release extent buffer 30654464 owner 7 gen 9 refs 2 flags 0x7\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state EA): unable to release extent buffer 30703616 owner 2 gen 9 refs 2 flags 0x7\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state EA): unable to release extent buffer 30720000 owner 10 gen 9 refs 2 flags 0x7\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state EA): unable to release extent buffer 30736384 owner 4 gen 9 refs 2 flags 0x7\n  BTRFS warning (device dm-2 state EA): unable to release extent buffer 30752768 owner 11 gen 9 refs 2 flags 0x7\n\nI'm using a stripped down version, which seems to trigger the warning\nmore reliably:\n\n  _fsstress_pid=\"\"\n  workload()\n  {\n  \tdmesg -C\n  \tmkfs.btrfs -f -K $dev \u003e /dev/null\n  \techo 1 \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once\n  \tmount $dev $mnt\n  \t$fsstress -w -n 1024 -p 4 -d $mnt &\n  \t_fsstress_pid=$!\n  \tsleep 0\n  \t$godown $mnt\n  \tpkill --echo -PIPE fsstress \u003e /dev/null\n  \twait $_fsstress_pid\n  \tunset _fsstress_pid\n  \tumount $mnt\n\n  \tif dmesg | grep -q \"WARNING\"; then\n  \t\tfail\n  \tfi\n  }\n\n  for (( i = 0; i \u003c $runtime; i++ )); do\n  \techo \"=== $i/$runtime ===\"\n  \tworkload\n  done\n\n[CAUSE]\nInside btrfs_write_and_wait_transaction(), we first try to write all\ndirty ebs, then wait for them to finish.\n\nAfter that we call btrfs_extent_io_tree_release() to free all\nextent states from dirty_pages io tree.\n\nHowever if we hit an error from btrfs_write_marked_extent(), then we\nstill call btrfs_extent_io_tree_release() to clear that dirty_pages io\ntree, which may contain dirty records that we haven't yet submitted.\n\nFurthermore, the later transaction cleanup path will utilize that\ndirty_pages io tree to properly cleanup those dirty ebs, but since it's\nalready empty, no dirty ebs are properly cleaned up, thus will later\ntrigger the warnings inside invalidate_btree_folios().\n---truncated---"
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