CVE-2026-68442 PUBLISHED

btrfs: don't propagate EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING to split extent maps

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 12.08.2026 Updated: 12.08.2026

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

btrfs: don't propagate EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING to split extent maps

When btrfs_drop_extent_map_range() splits an extent map, the new split maps inherit the original map's flags through a local 'flags' variable. Commit f86f7a75e2fb ("btrfs: use the flags of an extent map to identify the compression type") changed the EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING clearing to operate on em->flags instead of that local 'flags' copy, so a split of an extent map that is currently being logged wrongly inherits EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING.

The flag is then never cleared on the split, and when it is freed while still on the inode's modified_extents list (for example by the extent map shrinker) it trips the WARN_ON(!list_empty(&em->list)) in btrfs_free_extent_map() and leads to a use-after-free.

Clear EXTENT_FLAG_LOGGING from the local 'flags' copy used for the splits and only clear EXTENT_FLAG_PINNED from em->flags, restoring the behaviour prior to f86f7a75e2fb.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f86f7a75e2fb5fd7d31d00eab8a392f97ba42ce9 to 2a9246a424f45f33a1b8367052611ebe874868ad (excl.)
  • affected from f86f7a75e2fb5fd7d31d00eab8a392f97ba42ce9 to 9304713b70e7e1450e3a76e758836fe5391bfa95 (excl.)
  • affected from f86f7a75e2fb5fd7d31d00eab8a392f97ba42ce9 to 0e465c63f103a5ce6849614d6bda048d70eebec8 (excl.)
  • affected from f86f7a75e2fb5fd7d31d00eab8a392f97ba42ce9 to 5eff4d5b17fa1950e80bfd1ba43dc0699e61a644 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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