CVE-2026-64567
CVE CVE-2026-64567EUVD EUVD-2026-53261Published 2026-08-05T08:08:06.000ZLast changed 2026-08-08T15:13:08.000ZCVSS 7.8
What the advisory describes
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: reject free space cache with more entries than pages When loading a v1 free space cache, __load_free_space_cache() takes num_entries and num_bitmaps straight from the on-disk btrfs_free_space_header. That header is stored in the tree_root under a key with type 0, which the tree-checker has no case for, so neither count is validated before the load trusts it. The load loops num_entries times and maps the next page whenever the current one runs out, going through io_ctl_check_crc() -> io_ctl_map_page(), which does io_ctl->pages[io_ctl->index++]. But pages[] is allocated in io_ctl_init() from the cache inode's i_size, not from num_entries: num_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE); io_ctl->pages = kcalloc(num_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS); So if num_entries claims more records than the pages can hold, io_ctl->index runs off the end of pages[]. The write side never hits this because io_ctl_add_entry() and io_ctl_add_bitmap() both stop once io_ctl->index >= io_ctl->num_pages; the read side just never had the same check. To trigger it, take a clean cache (num_entries = <N> here), set num_entries in the header to 0x10000, and fix up the leaf checksum so it still passes the tree-checker. The cache inode has i_size = 65536, so num_pages is 16 and pages[] is a 16-pointer (kmalloc-128) array. The load now tries to read 65536 entries, io_ctl->index walks up to 16, and pages[16] is read past the array: 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) Read of size 8 at addr ffff88800c833a80 by task kworker/u8:3/58 io_ctl_check_crc (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:420 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:565) __load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:655 fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:820) load_free_space_cache (fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c:1017) caching_thread (fs/btrfs/block-group.c:880) btrfs_work_helper (fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:312) process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork free-space-cache.c:420 is io_ctl_map_page(), inlined into io_ctl_check_crc() at line 565, which is why that is the frame KASAN names. The out-of-bounds slot is then treated as a struct page and handed to crc32c(), so the bad read turns into a GP fault. Add the missing check to io_ctl_check_crc(), which is where both the entry loop and the bitmap loop end up. When num_entries is too large the load now fails like any corrupt cache: __load_free_space_cache() drops it and rebuilds the free space from the extent tree, so a valid cache is never rejected.
Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.
Products the advisory names
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- Linux — Linux patch: 7.1.6; 3.2; patch: 0; 5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530 <33878ba25e2638bc0c61623d7a05c9ca2b74c039; 5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530 <a2d8d5647ed854e38f941741aea45b9eb15a6350; patch: 6.6.148; patch: 6.12.101; 5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530 <5e1b2ca6b34939e70fb0785e8222b53cf060016f; patch: 6.18.42; 5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530 <404a0b986e0b6e79738fdf1f0ebbbc43b9acd2a2; 5b0e95bf607ddd59b39f52d3d55e6581c817b530 <f9fef131fa3f59b857217f522fa5ea430d1b707c; patch: 7.2-rc4
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