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🛡️ CVE-2026-23181 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
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Description

btrfs: sync read disk super and set block size

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

btrfs: sync read disk super and set block size

When the user performs a btrfs mount, the block device is not set

correctly. The user sets the block size of the block device to 0x4000

by executing the BLKBSZSET command.

Since the block size change also changes the mapping->flags value, this

further affects the result of the mapping_min_folio_order() calculation.

Let's analyze the following two scenarios:

Scenario 1: Without executing the BLKBSZSET command, the block size is

0x1000, and mapping_min_folio_order() returns 0;

Scenario 2: After executing the BLKBSZSET command, the block size is

0x4000, and mapping_min_folio_order() returns 2.

do_read_cache_folio() allocates a folio before the BLKBSZSET command

is executed. This results in the allocated folio having an order value

of 0. Later, after BLKBSZSET is executed, the block size increases to

0x4000, and the mapping_min_folio_order() calculation result becomes 2.

This leads to two undesirable consequences:

1. filemap_add_folio() triggers a VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_order(folio) <

mapping_min_folio_order(mapping)) assertion.

2. The syzbot report [1] shows a null pointer dereference in

create_empty_buffers() due to a buffer head allocation failure.

Synchronization should be established based on the inode between the

BLKBSZSET command and read cache page to prevent inconsistencies in

block size or mapping flags before and after folio allocation.

[1]

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]

RIP: 0010:create_empty_buffers+0x4d/0x480 fs/buffer.c:1694

Call Trace:

folio_create_buffers+0x109/0x150 fs/buffer.c:1802

block_read_full_folio+0x14c/0x850 fs/buffer.c:2403

filemap_read_folio+0xc8/0x2a0 mm/filemap.c:2496

do_read_cache_folio+0x266/0x5c0 mm/filemap.c:4096

do_read_cache_page mm/filemap.c:4162 [inline]

read_cache_page_gfp+0x29/0x120 mm/filemap.c:4195

btrfs_read_disk_super+0x192/0x500 fs/btrfs/volumes.c:1367

Affected software

CVE-2026-23181 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.15.0 up to 6.18.10)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 14 February 2026 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2026-23181 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-02-14
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.15.0 6.18.10
unknown

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