CVE-2025-39759
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
11/09/2025
Last modified:
03/11/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
btrfs: qgroup: fix race between quota disable and quota rescan ioctl<br />
<br />
There&#39;s a race between a task disabling quotas and another running the<br />
rescan ioctl that can result in a use-after-free of qgroup records from<br />
the fs_info->qgroup_tree rbtree.<br />
<br />
This happens as follows:<br />
<br />
1) Task A enters btrfs_ioctl_quota_rescan() -> btrfs_qgroup_rescan();<br />
<br />
2) Task B enters btrfs_quota_disable() and calls<br />
btrfs_qgroup_wait_for_completion(), which does nothing because at that<br />
point fs_info->qgroup_rescan_running is false (it wasn&#39;t set yet by<br />
task A);<br />
<br />
3) Task B calls btrfs_free_qgroup_config() which starts freeing qgroups<br />
from fs_info->qgroup_tree without taking the lock fs_info->qgroup_lock;<br />
<br />
4) Task A enters qgroup_rescan_zero_tracking() which starts iterating<br />
the fs_info->qgroup_tree tree while holding fs_info->qgroup_lock,<br />
but task B is freeing qgroup records from that tree without holding<br />
the lock, resulting in a use-after-free.<br />
<br />
Fix this by taking fs_info->qgroup_lock at btrfs_free_qgroup_config().<br />
Also at btrfs_qgroup_rescan() don&#39;t start the rescan worker if quotas<br />
were already disabled.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fd0f5ceb997f90f4332ccbab6c7e907e6b2d0eb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cda0fdde5d9890976861421d207870500f9aace
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b172535ccba12f0cf7d23b3b840989de47fc104d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c38028ce0d0045ca600b6a8345a0ff92bfb47b66
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd0b28d877b293b1d7f8727a7de08ae36b6b9ef0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1249667750399a48cafcf5945761d39fa584edf
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html



