CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49761
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-03-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: always report error in run_one_delayed_ref()
Currently we have a btrfs_debug() for run_one_delayed_ref() failure, but
if end users hit such problem, there will be no chance that
btrfs_debug() is enabled. This can lead to very little useful info for
debugging.
This patch will:
- Add extra info for error reporting
Including:
* logical bytenr
* num_bytes
* type
* action
* ref_mod
- Replace the btrfs_debug() with btrfs_err()
- Move the error reporting into run_one_delayed_ref()
This is to avoid use-after-free, the @node can be freed in the caller.
This error should only be triggered at most once.
As if run_one_delayed_ref() failed, we trigger the error message, then
causing the call chain to error out:
btrfs_run_delayed_refs()
`- btrfs_run_delayed_refs()
`- btrfs_run_delayed_refs_for_head()
`- run_one_delayed_ref()
And we will abort the current transaction in btrfs_run_delayed_refs().
If we have to run delayed refs for the abort transaction,
run_one_delayed_ref() will just cleanup the refs and do nothing, thus no
new error messages would be output.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.10.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.90)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18bd1c9c02e64a3567f90c83c2c8b855531c8098 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39f501d68ec1ed5cd5c66ac6ec2a7131c517bb92 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/853ffa1511b058c79a4c9bb1407b3b20ce311792 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdb4a70bb768d2a87890409597529ad81cb3de8a Patch