CVE-2025-21752 — btrfs: don't use btrfs_set_item_key_safe on RAID stripe-extents

Affected: Linux

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

btrfs: don't use btrfs_set_item_key_safe on RAID stripe-extents

Don't use btrfs_set_item_key_safe() to modify the keys in the RAID stripe-tree, as this can lead to corruption of the tree, which is caught by the checks in btrfs_set_item_key_safe():

BTRFS info (device nvme1n1): leaf 49168384 gen 15 total ptrs 194 free space 8329 owner 12 BTRFS info (device nvme1n1): refs 2 lock_owner 1030 current 1030 [ snip ] item 105 key (354549760 230 20480) itemoff 14587 itemsize 16 stride 0 devid 5 physical 67502080 item 106 key (354631680 230 4096) itemoff 14571 itemsize 16 stride 0 devid 1 physical 88559616 item 107 key (354631680 230 32768) itemoff 14555 itemsize 16 stride 0 devid 1 physical 88555520 item 108 key (354717696 230 28672) itemoff 14539 itemsize 16 stride 0 devid 2 physical 67604480 [ snip ] BTRFS critical (device nvme1n1): slot 106 key (354631680 230 32768) new key (354635776 230 4096) ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/ctree.c:2602! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1055 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1+ #1464 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:btrfs_set_item_key_safe+0xf7/0x270 Code: <snip> RSP: 0018:ffffc90001337ab0 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: 0000000000000000 R…

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CVE-2025-21752 — btrfs: don't use btrfs_set_item_key_safe on RAID stripe-extents