metadata writeback

  1. CVE-2025-40303: Safe Btrfs Metadata Writeback Fix and Production Patch Guide

    A recently assigned CVE—CVE-2025-40303—targets a corner case in the Linux kernel’s Btrfs implementation that can cause metadata writeback to proceed on a filesystem that has already been marked “in error,” leading to queueing of new work on workqueues that have been stopped and, in certain RAID...