A race condition was discovered in get_old_root in fs/btrfs/ctree.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (BUG) because of a lack of locking on an extent buffer before a cloning operation. Reference and upstream patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dbcc7d57bffc0c8cac9dac11bec548597d59a6a5 CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2021-28964|https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28964]