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CVE-2025-37827: btrfs: zoned: return EIO on RAID1 block group write pointer mismatch

Description

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

btrfs: zoned: return EIO on RAID1 block group write pointer mismatch

There was a bug report about a NULL pointer dereference in
__btrfs_add_free_space_zoned() that ultimately happens because a
conversion from the default metadata profile DUP to a RAID1 profile on two
disks.

The stack trace has the following signature:

BTRFS error (device sdc): zoned: write pointer offset mismatch of zones in raid1 profile
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:__btrfs_add_free_space_zoned.isra.0+0x61/0x1a0
RSP: 0018:ffffa236b6f3f6d0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff96c8132f3400 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000010000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff96c8132f3410
RBP: 0000000010000000 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff96c758f65a40 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 000011aac0000000
FS: 00007fdab1cb2900(0000) GS:ffff96e60ca00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000058 CR3: 00000001a05ae000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:

? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27
? page_fault_oops+0x15c/0x2f0
? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? __btrfs_add_fr...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-37827

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 4.25% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-06 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37827
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a447f748f6c7287dad68fa91913cd382fa0fcc8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4717a02cc422cf4bb2dbb280b154a1ae65c5f84
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0c26f47992672661340dd6ea931240213016609

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