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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64593" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-06T07:13:49.700Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:58:15.319Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64593" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64593.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64593" title: "btrfs: do not trim a device which is not writeable" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: do not trim a device which is not writeable\n\n[BUG]\nThere is a bug report that btrfs/242 can randomly fail with the\nfollowing NULL pointer dereference:\n\n run fstests btrfs/242 at 2026-06-01 10:25:08\n BTRFS: device fsid d4d7f234-487c-4787-88e4-47a8b68c9874 devid 1 transid 9 /dev/sdc (8:32) scanned by mount (122609)\n BTRFS info (device sdc): first mount of filesystem d4d7f234-487c-4787-88e4-47a8b68c9874\n BTRFS info (device sdc): using crc32c checksum algorithm\n BTRFS warning (device sdc): devid 2 uuid fbe72d72-3272-482d-80fb-ab88ed398192 is missing\n BTRFS warning (device sdc): devid 2 uuid fbe72d72-3272-482d-80fb-ab88ed398192 is missing\n BTRFS info (device sdc): allowing degraded mounts\n BTRFS info (device sdc): turning on async discard\n BTRFS info (device sdc): enabling free space tree\n Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000018\n user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000013fd6b000\n CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 122625 Comm: fstrim Not tainted 7.0.10-2-default #1 PREEMPT(full) openSUSE Tumbleweed e9a5f6b24978fba3bf015a992f865837fdfff3dd\n Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20250812-19.fc42 08/12/2025\n pstate: 01400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n pc : btrfs_trim_fs+0x34c/0xa00 [btrfs]\n lr : btrfs_trim_fs+0x1f0/0xa00 [btrfs]\n Call trace:\n btrfs_trim_fs+0x34c/0xa00 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840] (P)\n btrfs_ioctl_fitrim+0xe8/0x178 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840]\n btrfs_ioctl+0xdd4/0x2bd8 [btrfs f02c1d570ceea621c69d302ba75dd61868083840]\n __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x108\n invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x5c/0xd0\n el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xf0\n do_el0_svc+0x24/0x40\n el0_svc+0x40/0x1d0\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8\n el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8\n Code: 17ffff83 f94017e0 f9002be0 f9402ea0 (f9400c00)\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nAlso the reporter is very kind to test the following ASSERT() added to\nbtrfs_trim_free_extents_throttle():\n\n\tASSERT(device-\u003ebdev,\n\t \"devid=%llu path=%s dev_state=0x%lx\\n\",\n\t device-\u003edevid, btrfs_dev_name(device), device-\u003edev_state);\n\nAnd it shows the following output:\n\n assertion failed: device-\u003ebdev, in extent-tree.c:6630 (devid=2 path=/dev/sdd dev_state=0x82)\n\nWhich means the device-\u003ebdev is NULL, and the dev_state is\nBTRFS_DEV_STATE_IN_FS_METADATA | BTRFS_DEV_STATE_ITEM_FOUND, without\nBTRFS_DEV_STATE_WRITEABLE flag set.\n\n[CAUSE]\nThe pc points to the following call chain:\n\n btrfs_trim_fs()\n |- btrfs_trim_free_extents()\n |- btrfs_trim_free_extents_throttle()\n |- bdev_max_discard_sectors(device-\u003ebdev)\n\nSo the NULL pointer dereference is caused by device-\u003ebdev being NULL.\n\nThis looks impossible by a quick glance, as just before calling\nbtrfs_trim_free_extents_throttle(), we have skipped any device that has\nBTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING flag set.\n\nHowever in this particular case, there is a window where the missing\ndevice is later re-scanned, causing btrfs to remove the\nBTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING flag:\n\n btrfs_control_ioctl()\n |- btrfs_scan_one_device()\n |- device_list_add()\n |- rcu_assign_pointer(device-\u003ename, name);\n | This updates the missing device's path to the new good path.\n |\n |- clear_bit(BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING, &device-\u003edev_state)\n This removes the BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING flag.\n\nThis allows the missing device to re-appear and clear the\nBTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING flag. However the device still does not have\nthe BTRFS_DEV_STATE_WRITEABLE flag set, nor is its bdev pointer updated.\n\nThe bdev pointer remains NULL, triggering the crash later.\n\n[FIX]\nThis is a big de-synchronization between BTRFS_DEV_STATE_MISSING and\ndevice-\u003ebdev pointer, and shows a gap in btrfs's re-appearing-device\nhandling.\n\nThe proper handling of re-appearing device will need quite some extra\nwork, which is out of the context of this small\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"499f377f49f085ee4aa214c738e948e88626f39b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f41ae7e6664f3c4361129728f2c4d5f3ed995251"},{"version":"499f377f49f085ee4aa214c738e948e88626f39b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"210af872eafa0cf572a84cb303c0f9d2914c1226"},{"version":"499f377f49f085ee4aa214c738e948e88626f39b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d8fa4b828a86b33c60858e58aaab6df273ede05"},{"version":"499f377f49f085ee4aa214c738e948e88626f39b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c894159c5b8adc84072e3af0e55b0473a69564e"},{"version":"499f377f49f085ee4aa214c738e948e88626f39b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02c903fc6fc7e16c5d1f22d18784f1208acf43e3"},{"version":"499f377f49f085ee4aa214c738e948e88626f39b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a64521802997257b144e6edfb4e278dbeb972dd"},{"version":"499f377f49f085ee4aa214c738e948e88626f39b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4af31b898a948e29861cb0bae734058f9a49d9b"},{"version":"499f377f49f085ee4aa214c738e948e88626f39b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b1937eb08f51319bf71575484cde2b8c517aedc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.3"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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