CVE-2023-54185

Linux Kernel 2.6.29-6.1.45, 6.2.0-6.4.10, 6.5 - Denial of Service via BUG_ON in add_new_free_space

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space() At add_new_free_space() we have these BUG_ON()'s that are there to deal with any failure to add free space to the in memory free space cache. Such failures are mostly -ENOMEM that should be very rare. However there's no need to have these BUG_ON()'s, we can just return any error to the caller and all callers and their upper call chain are already dealing with errors. So just make add_new_free_space() return any errors, while removing the BUG_ON()'s, and returning the total amount of added free space to an optional u64 pointer argument.

Scores

EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.9%

Details

Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 2.6.29 - 6.1.45linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.4.10linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.29
Linux/Linux 0f9dd46cda36b8de3b9f48bc42bd09d20b9c3b52 - 23e72231f8281505883514b23709076e234d4f27
Linux/Linux 0f9dd46cda36b8de3b9f48bc42bd09d20b9c3b52 - d8ccbd21918fd7fa6ce3226cffc22c444228e8ad
Linux/Linux 0f9dd46cda36b8de3b9f48bc42bd09d20b9c3b52 - f775ceb0cb530e4a469b718fb2a24843071087f5
Linux/Linux 2.6.29
Linux/Linux 6.1.45 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.4.10 - 6.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.5
Published Dec 30, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026