{"id":"CVE-2025-37904","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-37904","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:56:31.567Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix the inode leak in btrfs_iget() [BUG] There is a bug report that a syzbot reproducer can lead to the following busy inode at unmount time: BTRFS info (device loop1): last…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix the inode leak in btrfs_iget()\n\n[BUG]\nThere is a bug report that a syzbot reproducer can lead to the following\nbusy inode at unmount time:\n\n  BTRFS info (device loop1): last unmount of filesystem 1680000e-3c1e-4c46-84b6-56bd3909af50\n  VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of loop1 (btrfs)\n  ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  kernel BUG at fs/super.c:650!\n  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 48168 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-00471-g119009db2674 #2 PREEMPT(full)\n  Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n  RIP: 0010:generic_shutdown_super+0x2e9/0x390 fs/super.c:650\n  Call Trace:\n   <TASK>\n   kill_anon_super+0x3a/0x60 fs/super.c:1237\n   btrfs_kill_super+0x3b/0x50 fs/btrfs/super.c:2099\n   deactivate_locked_super+0xbe/0x1a0 fs/super.c:473\n   deactivate_super fs/super.c:506 [inline]\n   deactivate_super+0xe2/0x100 fs/super.c:502\n   cleanup_mnt+0x21f/0x440 fs/namespace.c:1435\n   task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227\n   resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]\n   exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline]\n   exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:329 [inline]\n   __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]\n   syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x269/0x290 kernel/entry/common.c:218\n   do_syscall_64+0xd4/0x250 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n   </TASK>\n\n[CAUSE]\nWhen btrfs_alloc_path() failed, btrfs_iget() directly returned without\nreleasing the inode already allocated by btrfs_iget_locked().\n\nThis results the above busy inode and trigger the kernel BUG.\n\n[FIX]\nFix it by calling iget_failed() if btrfs_alloc_path() failed.\n\nIf we hit error inside btrfs_read_locked_inode(), it will properly call\niget_failed(), so nothing to worry about.\n\nAlthough the iget_failed() cleanup inside btrfs_read_locked_inode() is a\nbreak of the normal error handling scheme, let's fix the obvious bug\nand backport first, then rework the error handling later.","published":"2025-05-20T16:15:27.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:15:40.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-401"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00172,"percentile":0.06514,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.17%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30a339bece3a44ab0a821477139e84fb86af9761","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48c1d1bb525b1c44b8bdc8e7ec5629cb6c2b9fc4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37904","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}