CVE-2022-50346

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/09/2025
Last modified:
17/09/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> ext4: init quota for &amp;#39;old.inode&amp;#39; in &amp;#39;ext4_rename&amp;#39;<br /> <br /> Syzbot found the following issue:<br /> ext4_parse_param: s_want_extra_isize=128<br /> ext4_inode_info_init: s_want_extra_isize=32<br /> ext4_rename: old.inode=ffff88823869a2c8 old.dir=ffff888238699828 new.inode=ffff88823869d7e8 new.dir=ffff888238699828<br /> __ext4_mark_inode_dirty: inode=ffff888238699828 ea_isize=32 want_ea_size=128<br /> __ext4_mark_inode_dirty: inode=ffff88823869a2c8 ea_isize=32 want_ea_size=128<br /> ext4_xattr_block_set: inode=ffff88823869a2c8<br /> ------------[ cut here ]------------<br /> WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 2234 at fs/ext4/xattr.c:2070 ext4_xattr_block_set.cold+0x22/0x980<br /> Modules linked in:<br /> RIP: 0010:ext4_xattr_block_set.cold+0x22/0x980<br /> RSP: 0018:ffff888227d3f3b0 EFLAGS: 00010202<br /> RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88823007a000 RCX: 0000000000000000<br /> RDX: 0000000000000a03 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: ffff888230078178<br /> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 000000000000002c R09: ffffed1075c7df8e<br /> R10: ffff8883ae3efc6b R11: ffffed1075c7df8d R12: 0000000000000000<br /> R13: ffff88823869a2c8 R14: ffff8881012e0460 R15: dffffc0000000000<br /> FS: 00007f350ac1f740(0000) GS:ffff8883ae200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br /> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br /> CR2: 00007f350a6ed6a0 CR3: 0000000237456000 CR4: 00000000000006e0<br /> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br /> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400<br /> Call Trace:<br /> <br /> ? ext4_xattr_set_entry+0x3b7/0x2320<br /> ? ext4_xattr_block_set+0x0/0x2020<br /> ? ext4_xattr_set_entry+0x0/0x2320<br /> ? ext4_xattr_check_entries+0x77/0x310<br /> ? ext4_xattr_ibody_set+0x23b/0x340<br /> ext4_xattr_move_to_block+0x594/0x720<br /> ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea+0x59a/0x10f0<br /> __ext4_expand_extra_isize+0x278/0x3f0<br /> __ext4_mark_inode_dirty.cold+0x347/0x410<br /> ext4_rename+0xed3/0x174f<br /> vfs_rename+0x13a7/0x2510<br /> do_renameat2+0x55d/0x920<br /> __x64_sys_rename+0x7d/0xb0<br /> do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xa0<br /> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc<br /> <br /> As &amp;#39;ext4_rename&amp;#39; will modify &amp;#39;old.inode&amp;#39; ctime and mark inode dirty,<br /> which may trigger expand &amp;#39;extra_isize&amp;#39; and allocate block. If inode<br /> didn&amp;#39;t init quota will lead to warning. To solve above issue, init<br /> &amp;#39;old.inode&amp;#39; firstly in &amp;#39;ext4_rename&amp;#39;.

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