CVE-2025-21879

Published: March 30, 2025Last modified: March 30, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free on inode when scanning root during em shrinking At btrfs_scan_root() we are accessing the inode's root (and fs_info) in a call to btrfs_fs_closing() after we have scheduled the inode for a delayed iput, and that can result in a use-after-free on the inode in case the cleaner kthread does the iput before we dereference the inode in the call to btrfs_fs_closing(). Fix this by using the fs_info stored already in a local variable instead of doing inode->root->fs_info.

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• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59f37036bb7ab3d554c24abc856aabca01126414
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e79d26014f9386387575b9ed60d342057cee49b