CVE-2022-49913

btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes()

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

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Description

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

btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes()

During backref walking, at find_parent_nodes(), if we are dealing with a data extent and we get an error while resolving the indirect backrefs, at resolve_indirect_refs(), or in the while loop that iterates over the refs in the direct refs rbtree, we end up leaking the inode lists attached to the direct refs we have in the direct refs rbtree that were not yet added to the refs ulist passed as argument to find_parent_nodes(). Since they were not yet added to the refs ulist and prelim_release() does not free the lists, on error the caller can only free the lists attached to the refs that were added to the refs ulist, all the remaining refs get their inode lists never freed, therefore leaking their memory.

Fix this by having prelim_release() always free any attached inode list to each ref found in the rbtree, and have find_parent_nodes() set the ref's inode list to NULL once it transfers ownership of the inode list to a ref added to the refs ulist passed to find_parent_nodes().

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 86d5f994425252d8a40e2184c94a2682ae8ecfbf to before 6a6731a0df8c47ecc703bd7bb73459df767051e0Affected
  • 86d5f994425252d8a40e2184c94a2682ae8ecfbf to before 61e06128113711df0534c404fb6bb528eb7d2332Affected
  • 86d5f994425252d8a40e2184c94a2682ae8ecfbf to before 222a3d533027b9492d5b7f5ecdc01a90f57bb5a9Affected
  • 86d5f994425252d8a40e2184c94a2682ae8ecfbf to before 83ea8c5b54d452a5769e605e3c5c687e8ca06d89Affected
  • 86d5f994425252d8a40e2184c94a2682ae8ecfbf to before 92876eec382a0f19f33d09d2c939e9ca49038ae5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.14Affected
  • before 4.14Not affected
  • 5.4.224 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.154 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.78 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.8 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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