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

btrfs: make cow_file_range_inline() honor locked_page on error

The btrfs buffered write path runs through __extent_writepage() which
has some tricky return value handling for writepage_delalloc().
Specifically, when that returns 1, we exit, but for other return values
we continue and end up calling btrfs_folio_end_all_writers(). If the
folio has been unlocked (note that we check the PageLocked bit at the
start of __extent_writepage()), this results in an assert panic like
this one from syzbot:

BTRFS: error (device loop0 state EAL) in free_log_tree:3267: errno=-5 IO failure
BTRFS warning (device loop0 state EAL): Skipping commit of aborted transaction.
BTRFS: error (device loop0 state EAL) in cleanup_transaction:2018: errno=-5 IO failure
assertion failed: folio_test_locked(folio), in fs/btrfs/subpage.c:871
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/subpage.c:871!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 5090 Comm: syz-executor225 Not tainted
6.10.0-syzkaller-05505-gb1bc554e009e #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 06/27/2024
RIP: 0010:btrfs_folio_end_all_writers+0x55b/0x610 fs/btrfs/subpage.c:871
Code: e9 d3 fb ff ff e8 25 22 c2 fd 48 c7 c7 c0 3c 0e 8c 48 c7 c6 80 3d
0e 8c 48 c7 c2 60 3c 0e 8c b9 67 03 00 00 e8 66 47 ad 07 90 <0f> 0b e8
6e 45 b0 07 4c 89 ff be 08 00 00 00 e8 21 12 25 fe 4c 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc900033d72e0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000045 RBX: 00fff0000000402c RCX: 663b7a08c50a0a00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900033d73b0 R08: ffffffff8176b98c R09: 1ffff9200067adfc
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200067adfd R12: 0000000000000001
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea0001cbee80
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9500000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f5f076012f8 CR3: 000000000e134000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__extent_writepage fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:1597 [inline]
extent_write_cache_pages fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2251 [inline]
btrfs_writepages+0x14d7/0x2760 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2373
do_writepages+0x359/0x870 mm/page-writeback.c:2656
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x125/0x180 mm/filemap.c:397
__filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:430 [inline]
__filemap_fdatawrite mm/filemap.c:436 [inline]
filemap_flush+0xdf/0x130 mm/filemap.c:463
btrfs_release_file+0x117/0x130 fs/btrfs/file.c:1547
__fput+0x24a/0x8a0 fs/file_table.c:422
task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:222
exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
do_exit+0xa2f/0x27f0 kernel/exit.c:877
do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1026
__do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1037 [inline]
__se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1035 [inline]
__x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1035
x64_sys_call+0x2634/0x2640
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f5f075b70c9
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at
0x7f5f075b709f.

I was hitting the same issue by doing hundreds of accelerated runs of
generic/475, which also hits IO errors by design.

I instrumented that reproducer with bpftrace and found that the
undesirable folio_unlock was coming from the following callstack:

folio_unlock+5
__process_pages_contig+475
cow_file_range_inline.constprop.0+230
cow_file_range+803
btrfs_run_delalloc_range+566
writepage_delalloc+332
__extent_writepage # inlined in my stacktrace, but I added it here
extent_write_cache_pages+622

Looking at the bisected-to pa
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Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-476
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.11:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Weaknesses CWE-99 CWE-667

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:00:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-99

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: make cow_file_range_inline() honor locked_page on error The btrfs buffered write path runs through __extent_writepage() which has some tricky return value handling for writepage_delalloc(). Specifically, when that returns 1, we exit, but for other return values we continue and end up calling btrfs_folio_end_all_writers(). If the folio has been unlocked (note that we check the PageLocked bit at the start of __extent_writepage()), this results in an assert panic like this one from syzbot: BTRFS: error (device loop0 state EAL) in free_log_tree:3267: errno=-5 IO failure BTRFS warning (device loop0 state EAL): Skipping commit of aborted transaction. BTRFS: error (device loop0 state EAL) in cleanup_transaction:2018: errno=-5 IO failure assertion failed: folio_test_locked(folio), in fs/btrfs/subpage.c:871 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/subpage.c:871! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 PID: 5090 Comm: syz-executor225 Not tainted 6.10.0-syzkaller-05505-gb1bc554e009e #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/27/2024 RIP: 0010:btrfs_folio_end_all_writers+0x55b/0x610 fs/btrfs/subpage.c:871 Code: e9 d3 fb ff ff e8 25 22 c2 fd 48 c7 c7 c0 3c 0e 8c 48 c7 c6 80 3d 0e 8c 48 c7 c2 60 3c 0e 8c b9 67 03 00 00 e8 66 47 ad 07 90 <0f> 0b e8 6e 45 b0 07 4c 89 ff be 08 00 00 00 e8 21 12 25 fe 4c 89 RSP: 0018:ffffc900033d72e0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000045 RBX: 00fff0000000402c RCX: 663b7a08c50a0a00 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffc900033d73b0 R08: ffffffff8176b98c R09: 1ffff9200067adfc R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff5200067adfd R12: 0000000000000001 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea0001cbee80 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f5f076012f8 CR3: 000000000e134000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> __extent_writepage fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:1597 [inline] extent_write_cache_pages fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2251 [inline] btrfs_writepages+0x14d7/0x2760 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2373 do_writepages+0x359/0x870 mm/page-writeback.c:2656 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x125/0x180 mm/filemap.c:397 __filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:430 [inline] __filemap_fdatawrite mm/filemap.c:436 [inline] filemap_flush+0xdf/0x130 mm/filemap.c:463 btrfs_release_file+0x117/0x130 fs/btrfs/file.c:1547 __fput+0x24a/0x8a0 fs/file_table.c:422 task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:222 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline] do_exit+0xa2f/0x27f0 kernel/exit.c:877 do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1026 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1037 [inline] __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1035 [inline] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1035 x64_sys_call+0x2634/0x2640 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f5f075b70c9 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f5f075b709f. I was hitting the same issue by doing hundreds of accelerated runs of generic/475, which also hits IO errors by design. I instrumented that reproducer with bpftrace and found that the undesirable folio_unlock was coming from the following callstack: folio_unlock+5 __process_pages_contig+475 cow_file_range_inline.constprop.0+230 cow_file_range+803 btrfs_run_delalloc_range+566 writepage_delalloc+332 __extent_writepage # inlined in my stacktrace, but I added it here extent_write_cache_pages+622 Looking at the bisected-to pa ---truncated---
Title btrfs: make cow_file_range_inline() honor locked_page on error
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-04T09:25:31.610Z

Reserved: 2024-07-30T07:40:12.259Z

Link: CVE-2024-42266

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-09-11T12:42:14.401Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-08-17T09:15:07.967

Modified: 2025-09-29T14:03:37.210

Link: CVE-2024-42266

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-08-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-42266 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2025-07-12T23:05:55Z

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