CVE-2025-39759CWE-362

CVE-2025-39759

High · published September 11, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

btrfs: qgroup: fix race between quota disable and quota rescan ioctl

There's a race between a task disabling quotas and another running the

rescan ioctl that can result in a use-after-free of qgroup records from

the fs_info->qgroup_tree rbtree.

This happens as follows:

1) Task A enters btrfs_ioctl_quota_rescan() -> btrfs_qgroup_rescan();

2) Task B enters btrfs_quota_disable() and calls

btrfs_qgroup_wait_for_completion(), which does nothing because at that

point fs_info->qgroup_rescan_running is false (it wasn't set yet by

task A);

3) Task B calls btrfs_free_qgroup_config() which starts freeing qgroups

from fs_info->qgroup_tree without taking the lock fs_info->qgroup_lock;

4) Task A enters qgroup_rescan_zero_tracking() which starts iterating

the fs_info->qgroup_tree tree while holding fs_info->qgroup_lock,

but task B is freeing qgroup records from that tree without holding

the lock, resulting in a use-after-free.

Fix this by taking fs_info->qgroup_lock at btrfs_free_qgroup_config().

Also at btrfs_qgroup_rescan() don't start the rescan worker if quotas

were already disabled.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00118 · 1.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Published
2025-09-11T21:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 3.12, < 6.1.1496.1.149
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1036.6.103
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.446.12.44
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.15.116.15.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.16.26.16.2
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 16:52Z
    btrfs: qgroup: fix race between quota disable and quota rescan ioctl
    cvelistv5