CVE-2026-74318

What the bug is

In commit b48c980b6a7e ("btrfs: fix deadlock between reflink and transaction commit when using flushoncommit") a deadlock was fixed between reflinks and transaction commits when the fs is mounted with the flushoncommit option. This happened when we had to copy an inline extent's data to the destination file. However the issue was fixed only for the case where the destination offset is 0, it missed the case when the offset is greater than zero. Fix this by ensuring we get i_size update whenever we copied an inline extent's data into the destination file. Syzbot reported this with the following trace: INFO: task kworker/u8:3:57 blocked for more than 143 seconds. Not tainted syzkaller #0 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:kworker/u8:3 state:D stack:21600 pid:57 tgid:57 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4208160 flags:0x00080000 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-btrfs-129) Call Trace: <TASK> context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5402 [inline] __schedule+0x16f9/0x5500 kernel/sched/core.c:7204 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7283 [inline] schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7298 wait_extent_bit fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:905 [inline] btrfs_lock_extent_bits+0x59c/0x700 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:2008 btrfs_lock_extent fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.h:152 [inline] btrfs_invalidate_folio+0x440/0xc00 fs/btrfs/inode.c:7718 extent_writepage fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:1848 [inline] extent_write_cache_pages fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2552 [inline] btrfs_writepages+0x12f3/0x2410 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2684 do_writepages+0x32e/0x550 mm/page-writeback.c:2571 __writeback_single_inode+0x133/0x10e0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1764 writeback_sb_inodes+0x97f/0x1980 fs/fs-writeback.c:2056 wb_writeback+0x445/0xb00 fs/fs-writeback.c:2241 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2388 [inline] wb_workfn+0x3fd/0xf20 fs/fs-writeback.c:2428 process_one_work+0x98b/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3318 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3401 [inline] worker_thread+0xb49/0x1140 kernel/workqueue.c:3482 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 </TASK> INFO: task syz.0.145:8523 blocked for more than 143 seconds. Not tainted syzkaller #0 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:syz.0.145 state:D stack:22752 pid:8523 tgid:8522 ppid:5850 task_flags:0x400140 flags:0x00080002 Call Trace: <TASK> context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5402 [inline] __schedule+0x16f9/0x5500 kernel/sched/core.c:7204 __schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:7283 [inline] schedule+0x164/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:7298 wb_wait_for_completion+0x3e8/0x790 fs/fs-writeback.c:227 __writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x24c/0x2d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2847 try_to_writeback_inodes_sb+0x9a/0xc0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2895 btrfs_start_delalloc_flush fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2182 [inline] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x813/0x2fc0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2371 btrfs_sync_file+0xdf4/0x1230 fs/btrfs/file.c:1822 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2663 [inline] btrfs_do_write_iter+0x6a9/0x840 fs/btrfs/file.c:1473 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline] vfs_write+0x629/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:688 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x15f/0x560 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f5a0bdece59 RSP: 002b:00007f5a0b446028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5a0c065fa0 RCX: 00007f5a0bdece59 RDX: 000000000000029f RSI: 0000200000 ---truncated---

Where it lives

The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.

fs/btrfs/reflink.c

What this is

BTRFS FILE SYSTEMMAINTAINERS section matched on fs/btrfs/ · linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org · Maintained

Kernel module

btrfs

Check it on the machine

grep -w CONFIG_BTRFS_FS /boot/config-$(uname -r)

Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.

lsmod | grep -w btrfs

Prints a line if that module is loaded right now, and nothing if it is not. One that is not loaded can still be loaded later by anything that needs it.

Show whether Debian builds this, per release

Debian builds this as a loadable module. Every release below compiles it as a module on every flavour, so whether the code is in the running kernel depends on whether that module is loaded.

• bookworm, trixie, forky, sidm

m

a loadable module on every flavour - check lsmod, can be blacklisted

Build switch

CONFIG_BTRFS_FS

From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages

Signals

Published

2026-08-15 (2 months ago)source

CVSS

no vector published, unrated

Attack vector

not published

EPSS

0.21%, higher than 10.3% of all CVEssource

CISA KEV

not listedthe KEV catalogue

Debian urgency

not yet assignedsource

Subsystem

fs/btrfs

Upstream fixes

The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source

Introduced	Fixed in	Commit
5.7	6.12.97	06283034cec0
5.7	6.18.40	2aa37c8ef109
5.7	7.1.5	ea3452726ccb
5.7	7.2	532085d00eb5