N/A - CVE-2025-37904

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	CVE-2025-37904	First vendor Publication	2025-05-20
Vendor	Cve	Last vendor Modification	2025-05-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix the inode leak in btrfs_iget()

[BUG] There is a bug report that a syzbot reproducer can lead to the following busy inode at unmount time:

BTRFS info (device loop1): last unmount of filesystem 1680000e-3c1e-4c46-84b6-56bd3909af50
VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of loop1 (btrfs)
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/super.c:650!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 48168 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-00471-g119009db2674 #2 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:generic_shutdown_super+0x2e9/0x390 fs/super.c:650
Call Trace:

kill_anon_super+0x3a/0x60 fs/super.c:1237
btrfs_kill_super+0x3b/0x50 fs/btrfs/super.c:2099
deactivate_locked_super+0xbe/0x1a0 fs/super.c:473
deactivate_super fs/super.c:506 [inline]
deactivate_super+0xe2/0x100 fs/super.c:502
cleanup_mnt+0x21f/0x440 fs/namespace.c:1435
task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:329 [inline]
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x269/0x290 kernel/entry/common.c:218
do_syscall_64+0xd4/0x250 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

[CAUSE] When btrfs_alloc_path() failed, btrfs_iget() directly returned without releasing the inode already allocated by btrfs_iget_locked().

This results the above busy inode and trigger the kernel BUG.

[FIX] Fix it by calling iget_failed() if btrfs_alloc_path() failed.

If we hit error inside btrfs_read_locked_inode(), it will properly call iget_failed(), so nothing to worry about.

Although the iget_failed() cleanup inside btrfs_read_locked_inode() is a break of the normal error handling scheme, let's fix the obvious bug and backport first, then rework the error handling later.