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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49708

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 2:01:46 AM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa

Hulk Robot reported a BUG_ON:
==================================================================
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3211!
[...]
RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used.cold+0x85/0x136f
[...]
Call Trace:
 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x9df/0x5d30
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1803/0x4d80
 ext4_map_blocks+0x3a4/0x1a10
 ext4_writepages+0x126d/0x2c30
 do_writepages+0x7f/0x1b0
 __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x285/0x3b0
 file_write_and_wait_range+0xb1/0x140
 ext4_sync_file+0x1aa/0xca0
 vfs_fsync_range+0xfb/0x260
 do_fsync+0x48/0xa0
[...]
==================================================================

Above issue may happen as follows:
-------------------------------------
do_fsync
 vfs_fsync_range
  ext4_sync_file
   file_write_and_wait_range
    __filemap_fdatawrite_range
     do_writepages
      ext4_writepages
       mpage_map_and_submit_extent
        mpage_map_one_extent
         ext4_map_blocks
          ext4_mb_new_blocks
           ext4_mb_normalize_request
            >>> start + size <= ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical
           ext4_mb_regular_allocator
            ext4_mb_simple_scan_group
             ext4_mb_use_best_found
              ext4_mb_new_preallocation
               ext4_mb_new_inode_pa
                ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
                 >>> set ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len <= 0
           ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used
            >>> BUG_ON(ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len <= 0);

we can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands:
	`fallocate -l100M disk`
	`mkfs.ext4 -b 1024 -g 256 disk`
	`mount disk /mnt`
	`fsstress -d /mnt -l 0 -n 1000 -p 1`

The size must be smaller than or equal to EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP.
Therefore, "start + size <= ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical" may occur
when the size is truncated. So start should be the start position of
the group where ac_o_ex.fe_logical is located after alignment.
In addition, when the value of fe_logical or EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP
is very large, the value calculated by start_off is more accurate.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5707d721d1819db57dba57b1d4623034fcb32047
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6880fb2e64331b9fdc85d3f32b1d7e81ad8703f1
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fdaf31ad5f3d3afab744dfd9a8b0d9142aa881f
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/887a3e9ad4b8309a2266bce7ae749b2bf1f7a687
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f0f9d45dff0128c0fca0d2358c4153b024afa6
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a08f789d2ab5242c07e716baf9a835725046be89
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a37c1359714da42517dd19d36fc3c4d17edba832
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6b31616e5afe1d3972cb0682a373e50597faf5c