CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50766
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: set generation before calling btrfs_clean_tree_block in btrfs_init_new_buffer
syzbot is reporting uninit-value in btrfs_clean_tree_block() [1], for
commit bc877d285ca3dba2 ("btrfs: Deduplicate extent_buffer init code")
missed that btrfs_set_header_generation() in btrfs_init_new_buffer() must
not be moved to after clean_tree_block() because clean_tree_block() is
calling btrfs_header_generation() since commit 55c69072d6bd5be1 ("Btrfs:
Fix extent_buffer usage when nodesize != leafsize").
Since memzero_extent_buffer() will reset "struct btrfs_header" part, we
can't move btrfs_set_header_generation() to before memzero_extent_buffer().
Just re-add btrfs_set_header_generation() before btrfs_clean_tree_block().
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a408c6212c16b9a2a1141d3c531247582ef8101 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bc41c92d10b905c60f6ec13c9ef664a3555c54 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a687c2890fe4a2acaac6941fa4097a1264d8f3eb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbddcc4fa3443fe8cfb2ff8e210deb1f6a0eea38 git.kernel.org