CVE-2026-23423

btrfs: free pages on error in btrfs_uring_read_extent()

published April 3, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

btrfs: free pages on error in btrfs_uring_read_extent()

In this function the 'pages' object is never freed in the hopes that it is

picked up by btrfs_uring_read_finished() whenever that executes in the

future. But that's just the happy path. Along the way previous

allocations might have gone wrong, or we might not get -EIOCBQUEUED from

btrfs_encoded_read_regular_fill_pages(). In all these cases, we go to a

cleanup section that frees all memory allocated by this function without

assuming any deferred execution, and this also needs to happen for the

'pages' allocation.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00120 · 1.7th percentile
Published
2026-04-03T13:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 APR 13:24Z
    btrfs: free pages on error in btrfs_uring_read_extent()
    cvelistv5