# CVE-2024-57896: btrfs: flush delalloc workers queue before stopping cleaner kthread during unmount

> A use-after-free in the Linux kernel btrfs filesystem during unmount can cause a system crash, requiring a kernel patch.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 15 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-55842, AZL-55863, BELL-CVE-2024-57896, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-57896, GHSA-w28c-hqg3-44gm, OESA-2025-1669, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-57896

## What is CVE-2024-57896?

CVE-2024-57896 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Jan 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: flush delalloc workers queue before stopping cleaner kthread during unmount

During the unmount path, at close_ctree(), we first stop the cleaner
kthread, using kthread_stop() which frees the associated task_struct, and
then stop and destroy all the work queues. However after we stopped the
cleaner we may still have a worker from the delalloc_workers queue running
inode.c:submit_compressed_extents(), which calls btrfs_add_delayed_iput(),
which in turn tries to wake up the cleaner kthread - which was already
destroyed before, resulting in a use-after-free on the task_struct.

Syzbot reported this with the following stack traces:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x78/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880259d2818 by task kworker/u8:3/52

  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-syzkaller-00002-gcdd30ebb1b9f #0
  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
  Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
   dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
   print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
   print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
   kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
   __lock_acquire+0x78/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089
   lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849
   __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
   _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xd5/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
   class_raw_spinlock_irqsave_constructor include/linux/spinlock.h:551 [inline]
   try_to_wake_up+0xc2/0x1470 kernel/sched/core.c:4205
   submit_compressed_extents+0xdf/0x16e0 fs/btrfs/inode.c:1615
   run_ordered_work fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:288 [inline]
   btrfs_work_helper+0x96f/0xc40 fs/btrfs/async-thread.c:324
   process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
   process_scheduled_works+0xa66/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
   worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
   kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
   ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
   </TASK>

  Allocated by task 2:
   kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
   kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
   unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:319 [inline]
   __kasan_slab_alloc+0x66/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:345
   kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
   slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4104 [inline]
   slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4153 [inline]
   kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x1d9/0x380 mm/slub.c:4205
   alloc_task_struct_node kernel/fork.c:180 [inline]
   dup_task_struct+0x57/0x8c0 kernel/fork.c:1113
   copy_process+0x5d1/0x3d50 kernel/fork.c:2225
   kernel_clone+0x223/0x870 kernel/fork.c:2807
   kernel_thread+0x1bc/0x240 kernel/fork.c:2869
   create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:412 [inline]
   kthreadd+0x60d/0x810 kernel/kthread.c:767
   ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

  Freed by task 24:
   kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
   kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
   kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:582
   poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
   __kasan_slab_free+0x59/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
   kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
   slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2338 [inline]
   slab_free mm/slub.c:4598 [inline]
   kmem_cache_free+0x195/0x410 mm/slub.c:4700
   put_task_struct include/linux/sched/task.h:144 [inline]
   delayed_put_task_struct+0x125/0x300 kernel/exit.c:227
   rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2567 [inline]
   rcu_core+0xaaa/0x17a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2823
   handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:554
   run_ksoftirqd+0xca/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:943
  
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Weakness: CWE-416 (Use After Free)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-57896?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-57896?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-57896 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-57896 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-57896 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-57896 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Jan 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-2024-57896 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. 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-2024-57896/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57896/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57896
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57896
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-57896

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