{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2023-53339", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-09-16T16:08:59.565Z", "datePublished": "2025-09-17T14:56:33.114Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:43:02.231Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:43:02.231Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance\n\nPausing and canceling balance can race to interrupt balance lead to BUG_ON\npanic in btrfs_cancel_balance. The BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance\ndoes not take this race scenario into account.\n\nHowever, the race condition has no other side effects. We can fix that.\n\nReproducing it with panic trace like this:\n\n kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:4618!\n RIP: 0010:btrfs_cancel_balance+0x5cf/0x6a0\n Call Trace:\n \n ? do_nanosleep+0x60/0x120\n ? hrtimer_nanosleep+0xb7/0x1a0\n ? sched_core_clone_cookie+0x70/0x70\n btrfs_ioctl_balance_ctl+0x55/0x70\n btrfs_ioctl+0xa46/0xd20\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7d/0xa0\n do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\n Race scenario as follows:\n > mutex_unlock(&fs_info->balance_mutex);\n > --------------------\n > .......issue pause and cancel req in another thread\n > --------------------\n > ret = __btrfs_balance(fs_info);\n >\n > mutex_lock(&fs_info->balance_mutex);\n > if (ret == -ECANCELED && atomic_read(&fs_info->balance_pause_req)) {\n > btrfs_info(fs_info, \"balance: paused\");\n > btrfs_exclop_balance(fs_info, BTRFS_EXCLOP_BALANCE_PAUSED);\n > }" } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/btrfs/volumes.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "ddf7e8984c83aee9122552529f4e77291903f8d9", "lessThan": "ceb9ba8e30833a4823e2dc73f80ebcdf2498d01a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "72efe5d44821e38540888a5fe3ff3d0faab6acad", "lessThan": "ae81329f7de3aa6f34ecdfa5412e72161a30e9ce", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "b19c98f237cd76981aaded52c258ce93f7daa8cb", "lessThan": "29eefa6d0d07e185f7bfe9576f91e6dba98189c2", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/btrfs/volumes.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.1.42", "lessThan": "6.1.47", "status": "affected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.4.7", "lessThan": "6.4.12", "status": "affected", "versionType": "semver" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.1.42", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.47" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.4.7", "versionEndExcluding": "6.4.12" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceb9ba8e30833a4823e2dc73f80ebcdf2498d01a" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae81329f7de3aa6f34ecdfa5412e72161a30e9ce" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29eefa6d0d07e185f7bfe9576f91e6dba98189c2" } ], "title": "btrfs: fix BUG_ON condition in btrfs_cancel_balance", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }