btrfs: remove BUG() after failure to insert delayed dir index item
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG() after failure to insert delayed dir index item Instead of calling BUG() when we fail to insert a delayed dir index item into the delayed node's tree, we can just release all the resources we have allocated/acquired before and return the error to the caller. This is fine because all existing call chains undo anything they have done before calling btrfs_insert_delayed_dir_index() or BUG_ON (when creating pending snapshots in the transaction commit path). So remove the BUG() call and do proper error handling. This relates to a syzbot report linked below, but does not fix it because it only prevents hitting a BUG(), it does not fix the issue where somehow we attempt to use twice the same index number for different index items.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.5.6
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-52569
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 14:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
btrfs: remove BUG() after failure to insert delayed dir index item
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 2 Mar 2024, 21:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG() after failure to insert delayed dir index item Instead of calling BUG() when we fail to insert a delayed dir index item into the delayed node's tree, we can just release all the resources we have allocated/acquired before and return the error to the caller. This is fine because all existing call chains undo anything they have done before calling btrfs_insert_delayed_dir_index() or BUG_ON (when creating pending snapshots in the transaction commit path). So remove the BUG() call and do proper error handling. This relates to a syzbot report linked below, but does not fix it because it only prevents hitting a BUG(), it does not fix the issue where somehow we attempt to use twice the same index number for different index items.
osv:CVE-2023-52569
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.5.6
Complete source record
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