CVE-2022-49880
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
01/05/2025
Last modified:
07/05/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
ext4: fix warning in &#39;ext4_da_release_space&#39;<br />
<br />
Syzkaller report issue as follows:<br />
EXT4-fs (loop0): Free/Dirty block details<br />
EXT4-fs (loop0): free_blocks=0<br />
EXT4-fs (loop0): dirty_blocks=0<br />
EXT4-fs (loop0): Block reservation details<br />
EXT4-fs (loop0): i_reserved_data_blocks=0<br />
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_da_release_space:1527: ext4_da_release_space: ino 18, to_free 1 with only 0 reserved data blocks<br />
------------[ cut here ]------------<br />
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 92 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1528 ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1524<br />
Modules linked in:<br />
CPU: 0 PID: 92 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0<br />
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022<br />
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)<br />
RIP: 0010:ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1528<br />
RSP: 0018:ffffc900015f6c90 EFLAGS: 00010296<br />
RAX: 42215896cd52ea00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 42215896cd52ea00<br />
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000001 RDI: 0000000000000000<br />
RBP: 1ffff1100e907d96 R08: ffffffff816aa79d R09: fffff520002bece5<br />
R10: fffff520002bece5 R11: 1ffff920002bece4 R12: ffff888021fd2000<br />
R13: ffff88807483ecb0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88807483e740<br />
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
CR2: 00005555569ba628 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0<br />
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br />
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400<br />
Call Trace:<br />
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ext4_es_remove_extent+0x1ab/0x260 fs/ext4/extents_status.c:1461<br />
mpage_release_unused_pages+0x24d/0xef0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1589<br />
ext4_writepages+0x12eb/0x3be0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2852<br />
do_writepages+0x3c3/0x680 mm/page-writeback.c:2469<br />
__writeback_single_inode+0xd1/0x670 fs/fs-writeback.c:1587<br />
writeback_sb_inodes+0xb3b/0x18f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870<br />
wb_writeback+0x41f/0x7b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044<br />
wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline]<br />
wb_workfn+0x3cb/0xef0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227<br />
process_one_work+0x877/0xdb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289<br />
worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436<br />
kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376<br />
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306<br />
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Above issue may happens as follows:<br />
ext4_da_write_begin<br />
ext4_create_inline_data<br />
ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS);<br />
ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA);<br />
__ext4_ioctl<br />
ext4_ext_migrate -> will lead to eh->eh_entries not zero, and set extent flag<br />
ext4_da_write_begin<br />
ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent<br />
ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin<br />
ext4_da_map_blocks<br />
ext4_insert_delayed_block<br />
if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_delonly, lblk))<br />
if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_mapped, lblk))<br />
ext4_clu_mapped(inode, EXT4_B2C(sbi, lblk)); -> will return 1<br />
allocated = true;<br />
ext4_es_insert_delayed_block(inode, lblk, allocated);<br />
ext4_writepages<br />
mpage_map_and_submit_extent(handle, &mpd, &give_up_on_write); -> return -ENOSPC<br />
mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write); -> give_up_on_write == 1<br />
ext4_es_remove_extent<br />
ext4_da_release_space(inode, reserved);<br />
if (unlikely(to_free > ei->i_reserved_data_blocks))<br />
-> to_free == 1 but ei->i_reserved_data_blocks == 0<br />
-> then trigger warning as above<br />
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To solve above issue, forbid inode do migrate which has inline data.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
CPE | From | Up to |
---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.9.333 (excluding) | |
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.10 (including) | 4.14.299 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.15 (including) | 4.19.265 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.20 (including) | 5.4.224 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.5 (including) | 5.10.154 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.11 (including) | 5.15.78 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.16 (including) | 6.0.8 (excluding) |
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a43c015e98121c91a76154edf42280ce1a8a883
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de5ee103747fd3a24f1c010c79caabe35e8f0bb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b8f787ef547230a3249bcf897221ef0cc78481b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5370b965b7a945bb8f48b9ee23d83a76a947902e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72743d5598b9096950bbfd6a9b7f173d156eea97
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/890d738f569fa9412b70ba09f15407f17a52da20
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bee03d2fb8c54119b38ac6c24e7d60fae036b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3bf1e95cfa7d950dc3c064d0c2e3d06b427bc63