CVE-2025-37827 btrfs: zoned: return EIO on RAID1 block group write pointer mismatch
A NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's btrfs zoned RAID1 handling can cause a system crash during block group conversion.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
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- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-37827?
CVE-2025-37827 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 May 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: zoned: return EIO on RAID1 block group write pointer mismatch
There was a bug report about a NULL pointer dereference in __btrfs_add_free_space_zoned() that ultimately happens because a conversion from the default metadata profile DUP to a RAID1 profile on two disks.
The stack trace has the following signature:
BTRFS error (device sdc): zoned: write pointer offset mismatch of zones in raid1 profile BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:__btrfs_add_free_space_zoned.isra.0+0x61/0x1a0 RSP: 0018:ffffa236b6f3f6d0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff96c8132f3400 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000010000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff96c8132f3410 RBP: 0000000010000000 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000ffffffff R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff96c758f65a40 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 000011aac0000000 FS: 00007fdab1cb2900(0000) GS:ffff96e60ca00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000058 CR3: 00000001a05ae000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27 ? page_fault_oops+0x15c/0x2f0 ? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 ? __btrfs_add_free_space_zoned.isra.0+0x61/0x1a0 btrfs_add_free_space_async_trimmed+0x34/0x40 btrfs_add_new_free_space+0x107/0x120 btrfs_make_block_group+0x104/0x2b0 btrfs_create_chunk+0x977/0xf20 btrfs_chunk_alloc+0x174/0x510 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f btrfs_inc_block_group_ro+0x1b1/0x230 btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x9e/0x410 btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x3f/0x130 btrfs_balance+0x8ac/0x12b0 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x14c/0x3e0 btrfs_ioctl+0x2686/0x2a80 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? ioctl_has_perm.constprop.0.isra.0+0xd2/0x120 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x82/0x160 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? __memcg_slab_free_hook+0x11a/0x170 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? kmem_cache_free+0x3f0/0x450 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x10/0x210 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160 ? sysfs_emit+0xaf/0xc0 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? seq_read_iter+0x207/0x460 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? vfs_read+0x29c/0x370 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x10/0x210 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x160 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fdab1e0ca6d RSP: 002b:00007ffeb2b60c80 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fdab1e0ca6d RDX: 00007ffeb2b60d80 RSI: 00000000c4009420 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007ffeb2b60cd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000013 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007ffeb2b6343b R14: 00007ffeb2b60d80 R15: 0000000000000001 </TASK> CR2: 0000000000000058 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
The 1st line is the most interesting here:
BTRFS error (device sdc): zoned: write pointer offset mismatch of zones in raid1 profile
When a RAID1 block-group is created and a write pointer mismatch between the disks in the RAID set is detected, btrfs sets the alloc_offset to the length of the block group marking it as full. Afterwards the code expects that a balance operation will evacuate the data in this block-group and repair the problems.
But before this is possible, the new space of this block-group will be accounted in the free space cache. But in __btrfs_ ---truncated---
Weakness: CWE-476
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-37827?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2025-37827?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-37827 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-37827 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-37827, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37827, GHSA-2jfj-pqmf-3wq3, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-37827, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37827.