CVE-2022-50766
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
24/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
btrfs: set generation before calling btrfs_clean_tree_block in btrfs_init_new_buffer<br />
<br />
syzbot is reporting uninit-value in btrfs_clean_tree_block() [1], for<br />
commit bc877d285ca3dba2 ("btrfs: Deduplicate extent_buffer init code")<br />
missed that btrfs_set_header_generation() in btrfs_init_new_buffer() must<br />
not be moved to after clean_tree_block() because clean_tree_block() is<br />
calling btrfs_header_generation() since commit 55c69072d6bd5be1 ("Btrfs:<br />
Fix extent_buffer usage when nodesize != leafsize").<br />
<br />
Since memzero_extent_buffer() will reset "struct btrfs_header" part, we<br />
can&#39;t move btrfs_set_header_generation() to before memzero_extent_buffer().<br />
Just re-add btrfs_set_header_generation() before btrfs_clean_tree_block().



