CVE-2025-71183

MEDIUM EPSS 5.7%
Published Jan 31, 20265mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Jan 31, 2026 5mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs After rename exchanging (either with the rename exchange operation or regular renames in multiple non-atomic steps) two inodes and at least one of them is a directory, we can end up with a log tree that contains only of the inodes and after a power failure that can result in an attempt to delete the other inode when it should not because it was not deleted before the power failure. In some case that delete attempt fails when the target inode is a directory that contains a subvolume inside it, since the log replay code is not prepared to deal with directory entries that point to root items (only inode items). 1) We have directories "dir1" (inode A) and "dir2" (inode B) under the same parent directory; 2) We have a file (inode C) under directory "dir1" (inode A); 3) We have a subvolume inside directory "dir2" (inode B); 4) All these inodes were persisted in a past transaction and we are currently at transaction N; 5) We rename the file (inode C), so at btrfs_log_new_name() we update inode C's last_unlink_trans to N; 6) We get a rename exchange for "dir1" (inode A) and "dir2" (inode B), so after the exchange "dir1" is inode B and "dir2" is inode A. During the rename exchange we call btrfs_log_new_name() for inodes A and B, but because they are directories, we don't update their last_unlink_trans to N; 7) An fsync against the file (inode C) is done, and because its inode has a last_unlink_trans with a value of N we log its parent directory (inode A) (through btrfs_log_all_parents(), called from btrfs_log_inode_parent()). 8) So we end up with inode B not logged, which now has the old name of inode A. At copy_inode_items_to_log(), when logging inode A, we did not check if we had any conflicting inode to log because inode A has a generation lower than the current transaction (created in a past transaction); 9) After a power failure, when replaying the log tree, since we find that inode A has a new name that conflicts with the name of inode B in the fs tree, we attempt to delete inode B... this is wrong since that directory was never deleted before the power failure, and because there is a subvolume inside that directory, attempting to delete it will fail since replay_dir_deletes() and btrfs_unlink_inode() are not prepared to deal with dir items that point to roots instead of inodes. When that happens the mount fails and we get a stack trace like the following: [87.2314] BTRFS info (device dm-0): start tree-log replay [87.2318] BTRFS critical (device dm-0): failed to delete reference to subvol, root 5 inode 256 parent 259 [87.2332] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [87.2338] BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2) [87.2346] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 638968 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:4345 __btrfs_unlink_inode+0x416/0x440 [btrfs] [87.2368] Modules linked in: btrfs loop dm_thin_pool (...) [87.2470] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 638968 Comm: mount Tainted: G W 6.18.0-rc7-btrfs-next-218+ #2 PREEMPT(full) [87.2489] Tainted: [W]=WARN [87.2494] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [87.2514] RIP: 0010:__btrfs_unlink_inode+0x416/0x440 [btrfs] [87.2538] Code: c0 89 04 24 (...) [87.2568] RSP: 0018:ffffc0e741f4b9b8 EFLAGS: 00010286 [87.2574] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9d3ec8a6cf60 RCX: 0000000000000000 [87.2582] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff84ab45a1 RDI: 00000000ffffffff [87.2591] RBP: ffff9d3ec8a6ef20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc0e741f4b840 [87.2599] R10: ffff9d45dc1fffa8 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff9d3ee26d77e0 [87.2608] R13: ffffc0e741f4ba98 R14: ffff9d4458040800 R15: ffff9d44b6b7ca10 [87.2618] FS: 00007f7b9603a840(0000) GS:ffff9d4658982000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [87. ---truncated---

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
5.7% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Affected Products 17

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥3.18.32  –  <3.19
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.1.23  –  <4.2
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.4.8  –  <4.5
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.5.2  –  <4.6
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.6.1  –  <6.1.161
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.2  –  <6.6.121
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.7  –  <6.12.66
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.13  –  <6.18.6
linuxlinux_kernel4.6any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any

References 5

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c2413c69129f6ce60157f7b53d9ba880260400b
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ba0b6461bc4edb3005ea6e00cdae189bcf908a5
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a63998cd6687c14b160dccb0bbcf281b2eb0dab3
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7f0207db68d5a1b4af23acbef1a8e8ddc431ebb
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d52af58dd463821c5c516aebb031a58934f696ea
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c2413c69129f6ce60157f7b53d9ba880260400b
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ba0b6461bc4edb3005ea6e00cdae189bcf908a5
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a63998cd6687c14b160dccb0bbcf281b2eb0dab3
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7f0207db68d5a1b4af23acbef1a8e8ddc431ebb
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d52af58dd463821c5c516aebb031a58934f696ea
    Patch