btrfs: fix assertion when building free space tree (CVE-2025-38503)

Summary

btrfs: fix assertion when building free space tree

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

btrfs: fix assertion when building free space tree

When building the free space tree with the block group tree feature
enabled, we can hit an assertion failure like this:

BTRFS info (device loop0 state M): rebuilding free space tree
assertion failed: ret == 0, in fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1102
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kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1102!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6592 Comm: syz-executor322 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-gd7fa1af5b33e #0 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : populate_free_space_tree+0x514/0x518 fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1102
lr : populate_free_space_tree+0x514/0x518 fs/btrfs/free-space-tree.c:1102
sp : ffff8000a4ce7600
x29: ffff8000a4ce76e0 x28: ffff0000c9bc6000 x27: ffff0000ddfff3d8
x26: ffff0000ddfff378 x25: dfff800000000000 x24: 0000000000000001
x23: ffff8000a4ce7660 x22: ffff70001499cecc x21: ffff0000e1d8c160
x20: ffff0000e1cb7800 x19: ffff0000e1d8c0b0 x18: 00000000ffffffff
x17: ffff800092f39000 x16: ffff80008ad27e48 x15: ffff700011e740c0
x14: 1ffff00011e740c0 x13: 0000000000000004 x12: ffffffffffffffff
x11: ffff700011e740c0 x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 94ef24f55d2dbc00
x8 : 94ef24f55d2dbc00 x7 : 0000000000000001 x…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.1.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.146"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.99"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.39"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.15.7"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-38503 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.147-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38503 linux Fixed in: 6.1.147-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38503 linux

Summary

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Affected packages

Fix status by distribution

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