CVE-2026-74321

Περιγραφή

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix invalid pointer dereference in __btrfs_run_delayed_refs() In the beginning of the loop, we try to obtain a locked delayed ref head, if -locked_ref- is currently NULL, by calling btrfs_select_ref_head(), which can return an error pointer. If the error pointer is -EAGAIN we do a continue and go back to the beginning of the loop, which will not try again to call btrfs_select_ref_head() since -locked_ref- is no longer NULL but it-s ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN), and then we do: spin_lock(&locked_ref->lock); against a ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) value, generating an invalid pointer dereference. Fix this by ensuring that -locked_ref- is set to NULL when btrfs_select_ref_head() returns ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) and incrementing -count- as well, to prevent infinite looping. We do this by doing a goto to the bottom of the loop that already sets -locked_ref- to NULL and does a cond_resched(), with an increment to -count- right before the goto. These measures were in place before the refactoring in commit 0110a4c43451 (-btrfs: refactor __btrfs_run_delayed_refs loop-) but were unintentionally lost afterwards.