# CVE-2023-54180: btrfs: handle case when repair happens with dev-replace

> A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash in the Btrfs filesystem during device replacement, causing a denial of service.

- **Severity:** Not scored
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 30 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2023-54180, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54180, GHSA-526g-75xw-f5hp, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-54180, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-54180, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54180

## What is CVE-2023-54180?

CVE-2023-54180 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

btrfs: handle case when repair happens with dev-replace

[BUG]
There is a bug report that a BUG_ON() in btrfs_repair_io_failure()
(originally repair_io_failure() in v6.0 kernel) got triggered when
replacing a unreliable disk:

  BTRFS warning (device sda1): csum failed root 257 ino 2397453 off 39624704 csum 0xb0d18c75 expected csum 0x4dae9c5e mirror 3
  kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:2380!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
  CPU: 9 PID: 3614331 Comm: kworker/u257:2 Tainted: G           OE      6.0.0-5-amd64 #1  Debian 6.0.10-2
  Hardware name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7C60/TRX40 PRO WIFI (MS-7C60), BIOS 2.70 07/01/2021
  Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_end_bio_work [btrfs]
  RIP: 0010:repair_io_failure+0x24a/0x260 [btrfs]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   clean_io_failure+0x14d/0x180 [btrfs]
   end_bio_extent_readpage+0x412/0x6e0 [btrfs]
   ? __switch_to+0x106/0x420
   process_one_work+0x1c7/0x380
   worker_thread+0x4d/0x380
   ? rescuer_thread+0x3a0/0x3a0
   kthread+0xe9/0x110
   ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
   ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

[CAUSE]

Before the BUG_ON(), we got some read errors from the replace target
first, note the mirror number (3, which is beyond RAID1 duplication,
thus it's read from the replace target device).

Then at the BUG_ON() location, we are trying to writeback the repaired
sectors back the failed device.

The check looks like this:

		ret = btrfs_map_block(fs_info, BTRFS_MAP_WRITE, logical,
				      &map_length, &bioc, mirror_num);
		if (ret)
			goto out_counter_dec;
		BUG_ON(mirror_num != bioc->mirror_num);

But inside btrfs_map_block(), we can modify bioc->mirror_num especially
for dev-replace:

	if (dev_replace_is_ongoing && mirror_num == map->num_stripes + 1 &&
	    !need_full_stripe(op) && dev_replace->tgtdev != NULL) {
		ret = get_extra_mirror_from_replace(fs_info, logical, *length,
						    dev_replace->srcdev->devid,
						    &mirror_num,
					    &physical_to_patch_in_first_stripe);
		patch_the_first_stripe_for_dev_replace = 1;
	}

Thus if we're repairing the replace target device, we're going to
trigger that BUG_ON().

But in reality, the read failure from the replace target device may be
that, our replace hasn't reached the range we're reading, thus we're
reading garbage, but with replace running, the range would be properly
filled later.

Thus in that case, we don't need to do anything but let the replace
routine to handle it.

[FIX]
Instead of a BUG_ON(), just skip the repair if we're repairing the
device replace target device.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-54180?


## How do I fix CVE-2023-54180?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2023-54180 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54180 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-54180 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-54180 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54180 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54180/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54180/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54180
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54180
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-54180

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