CVE-2025-71159

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

btrfs: fix use-after-free warning in btrfsgetorcreatedelayed_node()

Previously, btrfsgetorcreatedelayednode() set the delayednode's refcount before acquiring the root->delayednodes lock. Commit e8513c012de7 ("btrfs: implement reftracker for delayednodes") moved refcountset inside the critical section, which means there is no longer a memory barrier between setting the refcount and setting btrfsinode->delayednode.

Without that barrier, the stores to node->refs and btrfsinode->delayednode may become visible out of order. Another thread can then read btrfsinode->delayednode and attempt to increment a refcount that hasn't been set yet, leading to a refcounting bug and a use-after-free warning.

The fix is to move refcount_set back to where it was to take advantage of the implicit memory barrier provided by lock acquisition.

Because the allocations now happen outside of the lock's critical section, they can use GFPNOFS instead of GFPATOMIC.