CVE: CVE-2023-53865
Published: 2025-12-09
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix warning when putting transaction with qgroups enabled after abort

If we have a transaction abort with qgroups enabled we get a warning
triggered when doing the final put on the transaction, like this:

  [552.6789] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [552.6815] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 81745 at fs/btrfs/transaction.c:144 btrfs_put_transaction+0x123/0x130 [btrfs]
  [552.6817] Modules linked in: btrfs blake2b_generic xor (...)
  [552.6819] CPU: 4 PID: 81745 Comm: btrfs-transacti Tainted: G        W          6.4.0-rc6-btrfs-next-134+ #1
  [552.6819] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  [552.6819] RIP: 0010:btrfs_put_transaction+0x123/0x130 [btrfs]
  [552.6821] Code: bd a0 01 00 (...)
  [552.6821] RSP: 0018:ffffa168c0527e28 EFLAGS: 00010286
  [552.6821] RAX: ffff936042caed00 RBX: ffff93604a3eb448 RCX: [PII_REDACTED]
  [552.6821] RDX: ffff93606421b028 RSI: ffffffff92ff0878 RDI: ffff93606421b010
  [552.6821] RBP: ffff93606421b000 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: ffffa168c0d07c20
  [552.6821] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: ffff93608dc52950 R12: ffffa168c0527e70
  [552.6821] R13: ffff93606421b000 R14: ffff93604a3eb420 R15: ffff93606421b028
  [552.6821] FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff93675fb00000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
  [552.6821] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
  [552.6821] CR2: 0000558ad262b000 CR3: 000000014feda005 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]370ee0
  [552.6822] DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
  [552.6822] DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
  [552.6822] Call Trace:
  [552.6822]  <TASK>
  [552.6822]  ? __warn+0x80/0x130
  [552.6822]  ? btrfs_put_transaction+0x123/0x130 [btrfs]
  [552.6824]  ? report_bug+0x1f4/0x200
  [552.6824]  ? handle_bug+0x42/0x70
  [552.6824]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
  [552.6824]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
  [552.6824]  ? btrfs_put_transaction+0x123/0x130 [btrfs]
  [552.6826]  btrfs_cleanup_transaction+0xe7/0x5e0 [btrfs]
  [552.6828]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x40
  [552.6828]  ? try_to_wake_up+0x94/0x5e0
  [552.6828]  ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10
  [552.6828]  transaction_kthread+0x103/0x1d0 [btrfs]
  [552.6830]  ? __pfx_transaction_kthread+0x10/0x10 [btrfs]
  [552.6832]  kthread+0xee/0x120
  [552.6832]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  [552.6832]  ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50
  [552.6832]  </TASK>
  [552.6832] ---[ end trace [PII_REDACTED] ]---

This corresponds to this line of code:

  void btrfs_put_transaction(struct btrfs_transaction *transaction)
  {
      (...)
          WARN_ON(!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(
                          &transaction->delayed_refs.dirty_extent_root));
      (...)
  }

The warning happens because btrfs_qgroup_destroy_extent_records(), called
in the transaction abort path, we free all entries from the rbtree
"dirty_extent_root" with rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe(), but we
don't actually empty the rbtree - it's still pointing to nodes that were
freed.

So set the rbtree's root node to NULL to avoid this warning (assign
RB_ROOT).
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62dd82bc7a90b5052c062a0ad5be6d8a479a3cfb; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89e994688e965813ec0a09fb30b87fb8cee06474; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa84ce8a78a1a5c10cdf9c7a5fb0c999fbc2c8d6