---
id: CVE-2026-74722
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  btrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_do_encoded_write()

  Local fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak:

  Unreferenced object 0xffff888018050a80 (size 64):
    c…
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  btrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_do_encoded_write()

  Local fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak:

  Unreferenced object 0xffff888018050a80 (size 64):
    c…
severity: none
published: '2026-08-22'
updated: '2026-10-14'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-14T13:10:00.187'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74722'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f0da96ccb1b9f35f4d3d4540dcaab0969d9d6b0'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20c0eeb4313f9f89d47b80b672b5846f9827cb31'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24a8f2c29aebb753ccb962fbb25bae18d7978f6e'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60b50ceba6243802f8d2c0a9a7c2d549a93b1d64'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2a4e4e626b2f4670b69b430c357f03f53eb6632'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2c7e88815edd5ecfb88e7660ab9fd42bda6bc47'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00173
epssPercentile: 0.06192
ingestedAt: '2026-10-14T13:30:58.548Z'
---

## Overview

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

btrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_do_encoded_write()

Local fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak:

Unreferenced object 0xffff888018050a80 (size 64):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 10297, jiffies 4294953601
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    10 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff 10 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff  ................
  backtrace (crc a8a6fc29):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]
    extent_changeset_alloc fs/btrfs/extent_io.h:207 [inline]
    qgroup_reserve_data+0x1c5/0x7d0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4305
    btrfs_qgroup_reserve_data+0x2e/0xb0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4355
    btrfs_do_encoded_write+0x92e/0x1040 fs/btrfs/inode.c:9746
    btrfs_encoded_write fs/btrfs/file.c:1482 [inline]
    btrfs_do_write_iter+0x280/0x610 fs/btrfs/file.c:1507
    btrfs_ioctl_encoded_write+0x3d6/0x490 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4738
    btrfs_ioctl+0x6f9/0xc90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:-1
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xbe/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Unreferenced object 0xffff888018050a00 (size 64):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 10297, jiffies 4294953601
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    90 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff 90 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff  ................
  backtrace (crc cb5c9580):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1014 [inline]
    ulist_prealloc+0x9c/0x110 fs/btrfs/ulist.c:114
    extent_changeset_prealloc fs/btrfs/extent_io.h:217 [inline]
    __set_extent_bit+0x16b/0x1a70 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:1086
    set_record_extent_bits+0x50/0x90 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:1821
    qgroup_reserve_data+0x274/0x7d0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4312
    btrfs_qgroup_reserve_data+0x2e/0xb0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4355
    btrfs_do_encoded_write+0x92e/0x1040 fs/btrfs/inode.c:9746
    btrfs_encoded_write fs/btrfs/file.c:1482 [inline]
    btrfs_do_write_iter+0x280/0x610 fs/btrfs/file.c:1507
    btrfs_ioctl_encoded_write+0x3d6/0x490 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4738
    btrfs_ioctl+0x6f9/0xc90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:-1
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xbe/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fix this by freeing an extent changeset before returning from
btrfs_do_encoded_write().

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.