CVE-2022-49995

writeback: avoid use-after-free after removing device

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Jun 18, 2025

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Description

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

writeback: avoid use-after-free after removing device

When a disk is removed, bdi_unregister gets called to stop further writeback and wait for associated delayed work to complete. However, wb_inode_writeback_end() may schedule bandwidth estimation dwork after this has completed, which can result in the timer attempting to access the just freed bdi_writeback.

Fix this by checking if the bdi_writeback is alive, similar to when scheduling writeback work.

Since this requires wb->work_lock, and wb_inode_writeback_end() may get called from interrupt, switch wb->work_lock to an irqsafe lock.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 45a2966fd64147518dc5bca25f447bd0fb5359ac to before f96b9f7c1676923bce871e728bb49c0dfa5013ccAffected
  • 45a2966fd64147518dc5bca25f447bd0fb5359ac to before 9a6c710f3bc10bc9cc23e1c080b53245b7f9d5b7Affected
  • 45a2966fd64147518dc5bca25f447bd0fb5359ac to before f87904c075515f3e1d8f4a7115869d3b914674fdAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15Affected
  • before 5.15Not affected
  • 5.15.64 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.6 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0 and laterNot affected

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