# CVE-2023-54185: btrfs: remove BUG\_ON()'s in add\_new\_free\_space()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-30 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.29

## 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.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23e72231f8281505883514b23709076e234d4f27
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f775ceb0cb530e4a469b718fb2a24843071087f5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8ccbd21918fd7fa6ce3226cffc22c444228e8ad

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