CVE-2022-50379
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/09/2025
Last modified:
19/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
btrfs: fix race between quota enable and quota rescan ioctl<br />
<br />
When enabling quotas, at btrfs_quota_enable(), after committing the<br />
transaction, we change fs_info->quota_root to point to the quota root we<br />
created and set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED at fs_info->flags. Then we try<br />
to start the qgroup rescan worker, first by initializing it with a call<br />
to qgroup_rescan_init() - however if that fails we end up freeing the<br />
quota root but we leave fs_info->quota_root still pointing to it, this<br />
can later result in a use-after-free somewhere else.<br />
<br />
We have previously set the flags BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED and<br />
BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_ON, so we can only fail with -EINPROGRESS at<br />
btrfs_quota_enable(), which is possible if someone already called the<br />
quota rescan ioctl, and therefore started the rescan worker.<br />
<br />
So fix this by ignoring an -EINPROGRESS and asserting we can&#39;t get any<br />
other error.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0efd9dfc00d677a1d0929319a6103cb2dfc41c22
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b7c0ac49a3eea15559c9d84863736a6d1164b4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/331cd9461412e103d07595a10289de90004ac890
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b5ffe86332af95f0f52be0a63d4da7c2b37b55
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b996a3014ef014af8f97b60c35f5289210a4720
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c22f86dd221eba0c7af645b1af73dcbc04ee27b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c97f6d528c3f1c83a6b792a8a7928c236c80b8fe