CVE-2023-53339

btrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2025 at 02:56 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:44 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance Pausing and canceling balance can race to interrupt balance lead to BUG_ON panic in btrfs_cancel_balance. The BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance does not take this race scenario into account. However, the race condition has no other side effects. We can fix that. Reproducing it with panic trace like this: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4618! RIP: 0010:btrfs_cancel_balance+0x5cf/0x6a0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? do_nanosleep+0x60/0x120 ? hrtimer_nanosleep+0xb7/0x1a0 ? sched_core_clone_cookie+0x70/0x70 btrfs_ioctl_balance_ctl+0x55/0x70 btrfs_ioctl+0xa46/0xd20 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7d/0xa0 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Race scenario as follows: > mutex_unlock(&fs_info->balance_mutex); > -------------------- > .......issue pause and cancel req in another thread > -------------------- > ret = __btrfs_balance(fs_info); > > mutex_lock(&fs_info->balance_mutex); > if (ret == -ECANCELED && atomic_read(&fs_info->balance_pause_req)) { > btrfs_info(fs_info, "balance: paused"); > btrfs_exclop_balance(fs_info, BTRFS_EXCLOP_BALANCE_PAUSED); > }

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 4.19.2934.20 ≤ v < 5.4.2555.11 ≤ v < 5.15.1285.16 ≤ v < 6.1.475.5 ≤ v < 5.10.1926.1.42 ≤ v < 6.1.476.2 ≤ v < 6.4.126.4.7 ≤ v < 6.4.126.1.426.4.76.5 rc16.5 rc26.5 rc36.5 rc46.5 rc56.5 rc672efe5d44821e38540888a5fe3ff3d0faab6acadb19c98f237cd76981aaded52c258ce93f7daa8cbddf7e8984c83aee9122552529f4e77291903f8d9
Vendor states this is fixed in 29eefa6d0d07e185f7bfe9576f91e6dba98189c2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ae81329f7de3aa6f34ecdfa5412e72161a30e9ce (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ceb9ba8e30833a4823e2dc73f80ebcdf2498d01a (fixed)
Affected range stops below 6.1.47, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 6.4.12, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-617

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