Security Advisory

CVE-2025-21879

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-03-27 14:57:08
Last updated 2026-05-11 21:08:17
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free on inode when scanning root during em shrinking At btrfs_scan_root() we are accessing the inodes root (and fs_info) in a call to btrfs_fs_closing() after we have scheduled the inode for a delayed iput, and that can result in a use-after-free on the inode in case the cleaner kthread does the iput before we dereference the inode in the call to btrfs_fs_closing(). Fix this by using the fs_info stored already in a local variable instead of doing inode->root->fs_info.