🛡️ AZL-77393 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

CVE-2023-53538 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

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

btrfs: insert tree mod log move in push_node_left

There is a fairly unlikely race condition in tree mod log rewind that

can result in a kernel panic which has the following trace:

[530.569] BTRFS critical (device sda3): unable to find logical 0 length 4096

[530.585] BTRFS critical (device sda3): unable to find logical 0 length 4096

[530.602] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000002

[530.618] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

[530.629] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

[530.641] PGD 0 P4D 0

[530.647] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

[530.654] CPU: 30 PID: 398973 Comm: below Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S O K 5.12.0-0_fbk13_clang_7455_gb24de3bdb045 #1

[530.680] Hardware name: Quanta Mono Lake-M.2 SATA 1HY9U9Z001G/Mono Lake-M.2 SATA, BIOS F20_3A15 08/16/2017

[530.703] RIP: 0010:__btrfs_map_block+0xaa/0xd00

[530.755] RSP: 0018:ffffc9002c2f7600 EFLAGS: 00010246

[530.767] RAX: ffffffffffffffea RBX: ffff888292e41000 RCX: f2702d8b8be15100

[530.784] RDX: ffff88885fda6fb8 RSI: ffff88885fd973c8 RDI: ffff88885fd973c8

[530.800] RBP: ffff888292e410d0 R08: ffffffff82fd7fd0 R09: 00000000fffeffff

[530.816] R10: ffffffff82e57fd0 R11: ffffffff82e57d70 R12: 0000000000000000

[530.832] R13: 0000000000001000 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: ffffc9002c2f76f0

[530.848] FS: 00007f38d64af000(0000) GS:ffff88885fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

[530.866] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[530.880] CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 00000002b6770004 CR4: 00000000003706e0

[530.896] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

[530.912] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

[530.928] Call Trace:

[530.934] ? btrfs_printk+0x13b/0x18c

[530.943] ? btrfs_bio_counter_inc_blocked+0x3d/0x130

[530.955] btrfs_map_bio+0x75/0x330

[530.963] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x12a/0x2d0

[530.973] ? btrfs_submit_metadata_bio+0x63/0x100

[530.984] btrfs_submit_metadata_bio+0xa4/0x100

[530.995] submit_extent_page+0x30f/0x360

[531.004] read_extent_buffer_pages+0x49e/0x6d0

[531.015] ? submit_extent_page+0x360/0x360

[531.025] btree_read_extent_buffer_pages+0x5f/0x150

[531.037] read_tree_block+0x37/0x60

[531.046] read_block_for_search+0x18b/0x410

[531.056] btrfs_search_old_slot+0x198/0x2f0

[531.066] resolve_indirect_ref+0xfe/0x6f0

[531.076] ? ulist_alloc+0x31/0x60

[531.084] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x12e/0x2b0

[531.095] find_parent_nodes+0x720/0x1830

[531.105] ? ulist_alloc+0x10/0x60

[531.113] iterate_extent_inodes+0xea/0x370

[531.123] ? btrfs_previous_extent_item+0x8f/0x110

[531.134] ? btrfs_search_path_in_tree+0x240/0x240

[531.146] iterate_inodes_from_logical+0x98/0xd0

[531.157] ? btrfs_search_path_in_tree+0x240/0x240

[531.168] btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0xd9/0x180

[531.179] btrfs_ioctl+0xe2/0x2eb0

This occurs when logical inode resolution takes a tree mod log sequence

number, and then while backref walking hits a rewind on a busy node

which has the following sequence of tree mod log operations (numbers

filled in from a specific example, but they are somewhat arbitrary)

REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 532

REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 531

REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 530

...

REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 0

REMOVE slot 455

REMOVE slot 454

REMOVE slot 453

...

REMOVE slot 0

ADD slot 455

ADD slot 454

ADD slot 453

...

ADD slot 0

MOVE src slot 0 -> dst slot 456 nritems 533

REMOVE slot 455

REMOVE slot 454

REMOVE slot 453

...

REMOVE slot 0

When this sequence gets applied via btrfs_tree_mod_log_rewind, it

allocates a fresh rewind eb, and first inserts the correct key info for

the 533 elements, then overwrites the first 456 of them, then decrements

the count by 456 via the add ops, then rewinds the move by doing a

memmove from 456:988->0:532. We have never written anything past 532,

---truncated---

Affected software

AZL-77393 is recorded against 1 package.

  • kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 4 October 2025 and last revised on 21 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-10-04
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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