CVE-2023-53247

btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand

Medium · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand

While trying to get the subpage blocksize tests running, I hit the

following panic on generic/476

assertion failed: PagePrivate(page) && page->private, in fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229

kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/subpage.c:229!

Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP

CPU: 1 PID: 1453 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7+ #12

Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20230301gitf80f052277c8-26.fc38 03/01/2023

pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

pc : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0

lr : btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0

Call trace:

btrfs_subpage_assert+0xbc/0xf0

btrfs_subpage_clear_checked+0x38/0xc0

btrfs_page_clear_checked+0x48/0x98

btrfs_truncate_block+0x5d0/0x6a8

btrfs_cont_expand+0x5c/0x528

btrfs_write_check.isra.0+0xf8/0x150

btrfs_buffered_write+0xb4/0x760

btrfs_do_write_iter+0x2f8/0x4b0

btrfs_file_write_iter+0x1c/0x30

do_iter_readv_writev+0xc8/0x158

do_iter_write+0x9c/0x210

vfs_iter_write+0x24/0x40

iter_file_splice_write+0x224/0x390

direct_splice_actor+0x38/0x68

splice_direct_to_actor+0x12c/0x260

do_splice_direct+0x90/0xe8

generic_copy_file_range+0x50/0x90

vfs_copy_file_range+0x29c/0x470

__arm64_sys_copy_file_range+0xcc/0x498

invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x80/0xd8

do_el0_svc+0x6c/0x168

el0_svc+0x50/0x1b0

el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x120

el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198

This happens because during btrfs_cont_expand we'll get a page, set it

as mapped, and if it's not Uptodate we'll read it. However between the

read and re-locking the page we could have called release_folio() on the

page, but left the page in the file mapping. release_folio() can clear

the page private, and thus further down we blow up when we go to modify

the subpage bits.

Fix this by putting the set_page_extent_mapped() after the read. This

is safe because read_folio() will call set_page_extent_mapped() before

it does the read, and then if we clear page private but leave it on the

mapping we're completely safe re-setting set_page_extent_mapped(). With

this patch I can now run generic/476 without panicing.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00146 · 3.6th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:46Z
    btrfs: set_page_extent_mapped after read_folio in btrfs_cont_expand
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