Description

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

btrfs: avoid NULL pointer dereference if no valid extent tree

[BUG]
Syzbot reported a crash with the following call trace:

BTRFS info (device loop0): scrub: started on devid 1
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000208
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 106e70067 P4D 106e70067 PUD 107143067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 689 Comm: repro Kdump: loaded Tainted: G O 6.13.0-rc4-custom+ #206
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
RIP: 0010:find_first_extent_item+0x26/0x1f0 [btrfs]
Call Trace:

scrub_find_fill_first_stripe+0x13d/0x3b0 [btrfs]
scrub_simple_mirror+0x175/0x260 [btrfs]
scrub_stripe+0x5d4/0x6c0 [btrfs]
scrub_chunk+0xbb/0x170 [btrfs]
scrub_enumerate_chunks+0x2f4/0x5f0 [btrfs]
btrfs_scrub_dev+0x240/0x600 [btrfs]
btrfs_ioctl+0x1dc8/0x2fa0 [btrfs]
? do_sys_openat2+0xa5/0xf0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x4f/0x120
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

[CAUSE]
The reproducer is using a corrupted image where extent tree root is
corrupted, thus forcing to use "rescue=all,ro" mount option to mount the
image.

Then it triggered a scrub, but since scrub relies on extent tree to find
where the data/metadata extents are, scrub_find_fill_first_stripe()...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21658

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.02% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-19 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24b85a8b0310e0144da9ab30be42e87e6476638a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aee5f69f3e6cd82bfefaca1b70b40b6cd8f3f784
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aecd91a5c5b68939cf4169e32bc49f3cd2dd329

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