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CVE-2025-38269

kernel: btrfs: exit after state insertion failure at btrfs_convert_extent_bit()

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · July 10, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: exit after state insertion failure at btrfs_convert_extent_bit()

If insert_state() state failed it returns an error pointer and we call extent_io_tree_panic() which will trigger a BUG() call. However if CONFIG_BUG is disabled, which is an uncommon and exotic scenario, then we fallthrough and call cache_state() which will dereference the error pointer, resulting in an invalid memory access.

So jump to the 'out' label after calling extent_io_tree_panic(), it also makes the code more clear besides dealing with the exotic scenario where CONFIG_BUG is disabled.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified