CVE-2022-49769

gfs2: Check sb_bsize_shift after reading superblock

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

gfs2: Check sb_bsize_shift after reading superblock

Fuzzers like to scribble over sb_bsize_shift but in reality it's very unlikely that this field would be corrupted on its own. Nevertheless it should be checked to avoid the possibility of messy mount errors due to bad calculations. It's always a fixed value based on the block size so we can just check that it's the expected value.

Tested with:

mkfs.gfs2 -O -p lock_nolock /dev/vdb for i in 0 -1 64 65 32 33; do gfs2_edit -p sb field sb_bsize_shift $i /dev/vdb mount /dev/vdb /mnt/test && umount /mnt/test done

Before this patch we get a withdraw after

[ 76.413681] gfs2: fsid=loop0.0: fatal: invalid metadata block [ 76.413681] bh = 19 (type: exp=5, found=4) [ 76.413681] function = gfs2_meta_buffer, file = fs/gfs2/meta_io.c, line = 492

and with UBSAN configured we also get complaints like

[ 76.373395] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:295:19 [ 76.373815] shift exponent 4294967287 is too large for 64-bit type 'long unsigned int'

After the patch, these complaints don't appear, mount fails immediately and we get an explanation in dmesg.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e to before d6b1e8ea6f3418c3b461ad5a35cdc93c996b2c87Affected
  • b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e to before 1ad197097343568066a8ffaa27ee7d0ae6d9f476Affected
  • b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e to before 15c83fa0fd659dd9fbdc940a560b61236e876a80Affected
  • b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e to before 8b6534c9ae9dba5489703a19d8ba6c8f2cfa33c2Affected
  • b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e to before 5fa30be7ba81191b0a0c7239a89befc0c94286d5Affected
  • b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e to before 28275a7c84d21c55ab3282d897f284d8d527173cAffected
  • b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e to before 16670534c7cff1acd918a6a5ec751b14e7436b76Affected
  • b3b94faa5fe5968827ba0640ee9fba4b3e7f736e to before 670f8ce56dd0632dc29a0322e188cc73ce3c6b92Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.19Affected
  • before 2.6.19Not affected
  • 4.9.334 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.300 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.267 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.225 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.156 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.80 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.10 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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