CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50379
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix race between quota enable and quota rescan ioctl
When enabling quotas, at btrfs_quota_enable(), after committing the
transaction, we change fs_info->quota_root to point to the quota root we
created and set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED at fs_info->flags. Then we try
to start the qgroup rescan worker, first by initializing it with a call
to qgroup_rescan_init() - however if that fails we end up freeing the
quota root but we leave fs_info->quota_root still pointing to it, this
can later result in a use-after-free somewhere else.
We have previously set the flags BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED and
BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_ON, so we can only fail with -EINPROGRESS at
btrfs_quota_enable(), which is possible if someone already called the
quota rescan ioctl, and therefore started the rescan worker.
So fix this by ignoring an -EINPROGRESS and asserting we can't get any
other error.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.19.262)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.220)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.150)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.19.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0efd9dfc00d677a1d0929319a6103cb2dfc41c22 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b7c0ac49a3eea15559c9d84863736a6d1164b4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/331cd9461412e103d07595a10289de90004ac890 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b5ffe86332af95f0f52be0a63d4da7c2b37b55 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b996a3014ef014af8f97b60c35f5289210a4720 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c22f86dd221eba0c7af645b1af73dcbc04ee27b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c97f6d528c3f1c83a6b792a8a7928c236c80b8fe Patch