CVE-2026-64567
Publication date:
05/08/2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
btrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages<br />
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When loading a v1 free space cache, __load_free_space_cache() takes<br />
num_entries and num_bitmaps straight from the on-disk<br />
btrfs_free_space_header. That header is stored in the tree_root under a key<br />
with type 0, which the tree-checker has no case for, so neither count is<br />
validated before the load trusts it.<br />
<br />
The load loops num_entries times and maps the next page whenever the current<br />
one runs out, going through io_ctl_check_crc() -> io_ctl_map_page(), which<br />
does io_ctl->pages[io_ctl->index++]. But pages[] is allocated in<br />
io_ctl_init() from the cache inode&#39;s i_size, not from num_entries:<br />
<br />
num_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE);<br />
io_ctl->pages = kcalloc(num_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);<br />
<br />
So if num_entries claims more records than the pages can hold, io_ctl->index<br />
runs off the end of pages[]. The write side never hits this because<br />
io_ctl_add_entry() and io_ctl_add_bitmap() both stop once<br />
io_ctl->index >= io_ctl->num_pages; the read side just never had the same<br />
check.<br />
<br />
To trigger it, take a clean cache (num_entries = here), set num_entries<br />
in the header to 0x10000, and fix up the leaf checksum so it still passes<br />
the tree-checker. The cache inode has i_size = 65536, so num_pages is 16 and<br />
pages[] is a 16-pointer (kmalloc-128) array. The load now tries to read<br />
65536 entries, io_ctl->index walks up to 16, and pages[16] is read past the<br />
array:<br />
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BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)<br />
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800c833a80 by task kworker/u8:3/58<br />
io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565)<br />
__load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:655 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:820)<br />
load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:1017)<br />
caching_thread (fs/btrfs/block-group.c:880)<br />
btrfs_work_helper (fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:312)<br />
process_one_work<br />
worker_thread<br />
kthread<br />
ret_from_fork<br />
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free-space-cache.c:420 is io_ctl_map_page(), inlined into io_ctl_check_crc()<br />
at line 565, which is why that is the frame KASAN names. The out-of-bounds<br />
slot is then treated as a struct page and handed to crc32c(), so the bad<br />
read turns into a GP fault.<br />
<br />
Add the missing check to io_ctl_check_crc(), which is where both the entry<br />
loop and the bitmap loop end up. When num_entries is too large the load now<br />
fails like any corrupt cache: __load_free_space_cache() drops it and rebuilds<br />
the free space from the extent tree, so a valid cache is never rejected.
Severity CVSS v4.0: Pending analysis
Last modification:
19/08/2026