CVE-2026-98080

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-98080

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

btrfs: do not force reloc root creation during qgroup_account_snapshot()

[BUG]

When running btrfs/252 with quota enabled through MKFS_OPTIONS="-O quota",

it has a high chance to trigger the following kernel warning and flips

the fs RO:

BTRFS info (device dm-2): relocating block group 30408704 flags metadata|dup

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WARNING: fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:879 at lookup_inline_extent_backref+0x74b/0x960 [btrfs], CPU#4: btrfs/2173

CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 2173 Comm: btrfs Not tainted 7.2.0-rc6-custom+ #457 PREEMPT(full) 3adc6528fb66f7a55fe1095385818e742f200aab

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS unknown 02/02/2022

RIP: 0010:lookup_inline_extent_backref+0x74b/0x960 [btrfs]

Call Trace:

<TASK>

insert_inline_extent_backref+0x7c/0x160 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

__btrfs_inc_extent_ref+0xa9/0x270 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

__btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x4af/0x11c0 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x9d/0xf0 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

create_pending_snapshot+0x39d/0xf00 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

create_pending_snapshots+0x9b/0xc0 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

btrfs_commit_transaction+0x280/0xeb0 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

prepare_to_relocate+0x147/0x200 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

relocate_block_group+0x6b/0x5e0 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x92c/0x2380 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x3f/0x1a0 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

btrfs_balance+0xa2c/0x19c0 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

btrfs_ioctl+0x2839/0x2d30 [btrfs 32f09462c54d9c922fca74a3e4866f4aa7737b72]

__x64_sys_ioctl+0x416/0x9a0

do_syscall_64+0xe1/0x790

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

</TASK>

---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

BTRFS info (device dm-2): leaf 4593991680 gen 233 total ptrs 175 free space 5953 owner 2

BTRFS info (device dm-2): refs 3 lock_owner 2173 current 2173

item 0 key (166772736 METADATA_ITEM 1) itemoff 16250 itemsize 33

extent refs 1 gen 222 flags 2

ref#0: tree block backref root 266

[ Skip the tree dump ]

item 174 key (263225344 METADATA_ITEM 0) itemoff 10328 itemsize 33

extent refs 1 gen 162 flags 258

ref#0: tree block backref root 267

BTRFS error (device dm-2): extent item not found for insert, bytenr 179847168 num_bytes 16384 parent 4594335744 root_objectid 273 owner 0 offset 0

BTRFS error (device dm-2): failed to run delayed ref for logical 179847168 num_bytes 16384 type 182 action 1 ref_mod 1: -117

[CAUSE]

The above error is showing that there is a tree reference to a metadata

extent that is no longer there.

With "ref_verify" mount option (requires CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG), there is

some extra debug output:

BTRFS error (device dm-2): dumping block entry [180961280 16384], num_refs 0, metadata 1, from disk 0

BTRFS error (device dm-2): root entry 256, num_refs 18446744073709551615

BTRFS error (device dm-2): root entry 273, num_refs 18446744073709551615

BTRFS error (device dm-2): Ref action 3, root 273, ref_root 273, parent 0, owner 0, offset 0, num_refs 1

btrfs_force_cow_block+0x129/0x7d0 [btrfs]

btrfs_cow_block+0x10a/0x250 [btrfs]

btrfs_search_slot+0x5eb/0xf40 [btrfs]

btrfs_insert_empty_items+0x3a/0x70 [btrfs]

insert_with_overflow+0x53/0x130 [btrfs]

btrfs_insert_dir_item+0x125/0x290 [btrfs]

btrfs_add_link+0xaa/0x410 [btrfs]

btrfs_rename+0x5ea/0xcd0 [btrfs]

btrfs_rename2+0x28/0x60 [btrfs]

vfs_rename+0x5b2/0xe10

filename_renameat2+0x244/0x430

__x64_sys_rename+0x48/0x70

do_syscall_64+0xe1/0x790

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

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What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References