CVE-2025-37856

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37856
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-37856.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-37856
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Published
2025-05-09T06:42:04Z
Modified
2026-10-24T02:30:37Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
btrfs: harden block_group::bg_list against list_del() races
Details

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

btrfs: harden block_group::bg_list against list_del() races

As far as I can tell, these calls of list_del_init() on bg_list cannot run concurrently with btrfs_mark_bg_unused() or btrfs_mark_bg_to_reclaim(), as they are in transaction error paths and situations where the block group is readonly.

However, if there is any chance at all of racing with mark_bg_unused(), or a different future user of bg_list, better to be safe than sorry.

Otherwise we risk the following interleaving (bg_list refcount in parens)

T1 (some random op) T2 (btrfs_mark_bg_unused) !list_empty(&bg->bg_list); (1) list_del_init(&bg->bg_list); (1) list_move_tail (1) btrfs_put_block_group (0) btrfs_delete_unused_bgs bg = list_first_entry list_del_init(&bg->bg_list); btrfs_put_block_group(bg); (-1)

Ultimately, this results in a broken ref count that hits zero one deref early and the real final deref underflows the refcount, resulting in a WARNING.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/37xxx/CVE-2025-37856.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a9f189716cf15913c453299d72f69c51a9b0f86b
Fixed
9039afe6240ae01d6caf2fa731590ac74fb8a69b
Fixed
bf089c4d1141b27332c092b1dcca5022c415a3b6
Fixed
909e60fb469d4101c6b08cf6e622efb062bb24a1
Fixed
185fd73e5ac06027c4be9a129e59193f6a3ef202
Fixed
7511e29cf1355b2c47d0effb39e463119913e2f6
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.15.128
Fixed
5.16
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.1.47
Fixed
6.2
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.4.12
Fixed
6.5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
edf3b5aadb2515c808200b904baa5b70a727f0ac
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
01eca70ef8cf499d0cb6d1bbd691558e7792cf17
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5d19abcffd8404078dfa7d7118cec357b5e7bc58

Affected versions

v5.*
v5.15.128
v5.15.129
v5.15.130
v5.15.131
v5.15.132
v5.15.133
v5.15.134
v5.15.135
v5.15.136
v5.15.137
v5.15.138
v5.15.139
v5.15.140
v5.15.141
v5.15.142
v5.15.143
v5.15.144
v5.15.145
v5.15.146
v5.15.147
v5.15.148
v5.15.149
v5.15.150
v5.15.151
v5.15.152
v5.15.153
v5.15.154
v5.15.155
v5.15.156
v5.15.157
v5.15.158
v5.15.159
v5.15.160
v5.15.161
v5.15.162
v5.15.163
v5.15.164
v5.15.165
v5.15.166
v5.15.167
v5.15.168
v5.15.169
v5.15.170
v5.15.171
v5.15.172
v5.15.173
v5.15.174
v5.15.175
v5.15.176
v5.15.177
v5.15.178
v5.15.179
v5.15.180
v5.15.181
v5.15.182
v5.15.183
v5.15.184
v5.15.185
v5.15.186
v5.15.187
v5.15.188
v5.15.189
v5.15.190
v5.15.191
v5.15.192
v5.15.193
v5.15.194
v5.15.195
v5.15.196
v5.15.197
v5.15.198
v5.15.199
v5.15.200
v5.15.201
v5.15.202
v5.15.203
v5.15.204
v5.15.205
v5.15.206
v5.15.207
v5.15.208
v5.15.209
v5.15.210
v5.15.211
v5.15.212
v5.15.213
v5.15.214
v5.15.215
v5.15.216
v5.15.217
v5.15.218
v5.15.219
v5.15.220
v5.15.221
v5.15.222
v5.15.223
v6.*
v6.1.100
v6.1.101
v6.1.102
v6.1.103
v6.1.104
v6.1.105
v6.1.106
v6.1.107
v6.1.108
v6.1.109
v6.1.110
v6.1.111
v6.1.112
v6.1.113
v6.1.114
v6.1.115
v6.1.116
v6.1.117
v6.1.118
v6.1.119
v6.1.120
v6.1.121
v6.1.122
v6.1.123
v6.1.124
v6.1.125
v6.1.126
v6.1.127
v6.1.128
v6.1.129
v6.1.130
v6.1.131
v6.1.132
v6.1.133
v6.1.134
v6.1.135
v6.1.136
v6.1.137
v6.1.138
v6.1.139
v6.1.140
v6.1.141
v6.1.142
v6.1.143
v6.1.144
v6.1.145
v6.1.146
v6.1.147
v6.1.148
v6.1.149
v6.1.150
v6.1.151
v6.1.152
v6.1.153
v6.1.154
v6.1.155
v6.1.156
v6.1.157
v6.1.158
v6.1.159
v6.1.160
v6.1.161
v6.1.162
v6.1.163
v6.1.164
v6.1.165
v6.1.166
v6.1.167
v6.1.168
v6.1.169
v6.1.170
v6.1.171
v6.1.172
v6.1.173
v6.1.174
v6.1.175
v6.1.176
v6.1.177
v6.1.178
v6.1.179
v6.1.180
v6.1.181
v6.1.182
v6.1.183
v6.1.184
v6.1.185
v6.1.186
v6.1.187
v6.1.188
v6.1.189
v6.1.190
v6.1.47
v6.1.48
v6.1.49
v6.1.50
v6.1.51
v6.1.52
v6.1.53
v6.1.54
v6.1.55
v6.1.56
v6.1.57
v6.1.58
v6.1.59
v6.1.60
v6.1.61
v6.1.62
v6.1.63
v6.1.64
v6.1.65
v6.1.66
v6.1.67
v6.1.68
v6.1.69
v6.1.70
v6.1.71
v6.1.72
v6.1.73
v6.1.74
v6.1.75
v6.1.76
v6.1.77
v6.1.78
v6.1.79
v6.1.80
v6.1.81
v6.1.82
v6.1.83
v6.1.84
v6.1.85
v6.1.86
v6.1.87
v6.1.88
v6.1.89
v6.1.90
v6.1.91
v6.1.92
v6.1.93
v6.1.94
v6.1.95
v6.1.96
v6.1.97
v6.1.98
v6.1.99
v6.4.12
v6.4.13
v6.4.14
v6.4.15
v6.4.16

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-37856.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.5.0
Fixed
6.6.160
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.24
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.13.12
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.14.0
Fixed
6.14.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-37856.json"