CVE-2022-50090

btrfs: replace BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE with fs_info->max_extent_size

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jun 18, 2025

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Description

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

btrfs: replace BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE with fs_info->max_extent_size

On zoned filesystem, data write out is limited by max_zone_append_size, and a large ordered extent is split according the size of a bio. OTOH, the number of extents to be written is calculated using BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE, and that estimated number is used to reserve the metadata bytes to update and/or create the metadata items.

The metadata reservation is done at e.g, btrfs_buffered_write() and then released according to the estimation changes. Thus, if the number of extent increases massively, the reserved metadata can run out.

The increase of the number of extents easily occurs on zoned filesystem if BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE > max_zone_append_size. And, it causes the following warning on a small RAM environment with disabling metadata over-commit (in the following patch).

[75721.498492] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [75721.505624] BTRFS: block rsv 1 returned -28 [75721.512230] WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 2327559 at fs/btrfs/block-rsv.c:537 btrfs_use_block_rsv+0x560/0x760 [btrfs] [75721.581854] CPU: 24 PID: 2327559 Comm: kworker/u64:10 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 5.18.0-rc2-BTRFS-ZNS+ #109 [75721.597200] Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/H12SSL-NT, BIOS 2.0 02/22/2021 [75721.607310] Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write btrfs_work_helper [btrfs] [75721.616209] RIP: 0010:btrfs_use_block_rsv+0x560/0x760 [btrfs] [75721.646649] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000fbdf3e0 EFLAGS: 00010286 [75721.654126] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000004000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [75721.663524] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: fffff52001f7be6e [75721.672921] RBP: ffffc9000fbdf420 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff889f8d1fc6c7 [75721.682493] R10: ffffed13f1a3f8d8 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88980a3c0e28 [75721.692284] R13: ffff889b66590000 R14: ffff88980a3c0e40 R15: ffff88980a3c0e8a [75721.701878] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff889f8d000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [75721.712601] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [75721.720726] CR2: 000055d12e05c018 CR3: 0000800193594000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 [75721.730499] Call Trace: [75721.735166] <TASK> [75721.739886] btrfs_alloc_tree_block+0x1e1/0x1100 [btrfs] [75721.747545] ? btrfs_alloc_logged_file_extent+0x550/0x550 [btrfs] [75721.756145] ? btrfs_get_32+0xea/0x2d0 [btrfs] [75721.762852] ? btrfs_get_32+0xea/0x2d0 [btrfs] [75721.769520] ? push_leaf_left+0x420/0x620 [btrfs] [75721.776431] ? memcpy+0x4e/0x60 [75721.781931] split_leaf+0x433/0x12d0 [btrfs] [75721.788392] ? btrfs_get_token_32+0x580/0x580 [btrfs] [75721.795636] ? push_for_double_split.isra.0+0x420/0x420 [btrfs] [75721.803759] ? leaf_space_used+0x15d/0x1a0 [btrfs] [75721.811156] btrfs_search_slot+0x1bc3/0x2790 [btrfs] [75721.818300] ? lock_downgrade+0x7c0/0x7c0 [75721.824411] ? free_extent_buffer.part.0+0x107/0x200 [btrfs] [75721.832456] ? split_leaf+0x12d0/0x12d0 [btrfs] [75721.839149] ? free_extent_buffer.part.0+0x14f/0x200 [btrfs] [75721.846945] ? free_extent_buffer+0x13/0x20 [btrfs] [75721.853960] ? btrfs_release_path+0x4b/0x190 [btrfs] [75721.861429] btrfs_csum_file_blocks+0x85c/0x1500 [btrfs] [75721.869313] ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x16/0x80 [75721.876085] ? lock_release+0x552/0xf80 [75721.881957] ? btrfs_del_csums+0x8c0/0x8c0 [btrfs] [75721.888886] ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 [75721.895152] ? do_raw_read_unlock+0x44/0x80 [75721.901323] ? _raw_write_lock_irq+0x60/0x80 [75721.907983] ? btrfs_global_root+0xb9/0xe0 [btrfs] [75721.915166] ? btrfs_csum_root+0x12b/0x180 [btrfs] [75721.921918] ? btrfs_get_global_root+0x820/0x820 [btrfs] [75721.929166] ? _raw_write_unlock+0x23/0x40 [75721.935116] ? unpin_extent_cache+0x1e3/0x390 [btrfs] [75721.942041] btrfs_finish_ordered_io.isra.0+0xa0c/0x1dc0 [btrfs] [75721.949906] ? try_to_wake_up+0x30/0x14a0 [75721.955700] ? btrfs_unlink_subvol+0xda0/0xda0 [btrfs] [75721.962661] ? rcu ---truncated---

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d8e3fb106f393858b90b3befc4f6092a76c86d1c to before 1aa262c1d056551dd1246115af8b7e351184deaeAffected
  • d8e3fb106f393858b90b3befc4f6092a76c86d1c to before 6cb4b96df97082a54634ba02196516919cda228cAffected
  • d8e3fb106f393858b90b3befc4f6092a76c86d1c to before 096e8eb9639b342bc35f9b741cf05e26d0106e92Affected
  • d8e3fb106f393858b90b3befc4f6092a76c86d1c to before f7b12a62f008a3041f42f2426983e59a6a0a3c59Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 5.15.64 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.18.18 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19.2 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0 and laterNot affected

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