CVE-2022-50293

btrfs: do not BUG_ON() on ENOMEM when dropping extent items for a range

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2025

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Description

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

btrfs: do not BUG_ON() on ENOMEM when dropping extent items for a range

If we get -ENOMEM while dropping file extent items in a given range, at btrfs_drop_extents(), due to failure to allocate memory when attempting to increment the reference count for an extent or drop the reference count, we handle it with a BUG_ON(). This is excessive, instead we can simply abort the transaction and return the error to the caller. In fact most callers of btrfs_drop_extents(), directly or indirectly, already abort the transaction if btrfs_drop_extents() returns any error.

Also, we already have error paths at btrfs_drop_extents() that may return -ENOMEM and in those cases we abort the transaction, like for example anything that changes the b+tree may return -ENOMEM due to a failure to allocate a new extent buffer when COWing an existing extent buffer, such as a call to btrfs_duplicate_item() for example.

So replace the BUG_ON() calls with proper logic to abort the transaction and return the error.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 39279cc3d2704cfbf9c35dcb5bdd392159ae4625 to before 50f993da945074b2a069da099a0331b23a0c89a0Affected
  • 39279cc3d2704cfbf9c35dcb5bdd392159ae4625 to before 7fbcb635c8fc927d139f3302babcf1b42c09265cAffected
  • 39279cc3d2704cfbf9c35dcb5bdd392159ae4625 to before 1baf3370e2dc5e6bd1368348736189457dab2a27Affected
  • 39279cc3d2704cfbf9c35dcb5bdd392159ae4625 to before 162d053e15fe985f754ef495a96eb3db970c43edAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.29Affected
  • before 2.6.29Not affected
  • 5.15.86 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.16 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1.2 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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