Riskcovery

CVE-2022-50622

ext4: fix potential memory leak in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 8, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 8, 2025

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Description

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

ext4: fix potential memory leak in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode()

As krealloc may return NULL, in this case 'state->fc_modified_inodes' may not be freed by krealloc, but 'state->fc_modified_inodes' already set NULL. Then will lead to 'state->fc_modified_inodes' memory leak.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before c9ce7766dc4e88e624c62a68221a3bbe8f06e856Affected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before 9b5eb368a86f97eb9831f5b53b8e43ec69bc7cd4Affected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before c0be17635f039f864b1108efec0015c73736e414Affected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before 24d39affc6be1acf6df86a8c3e2413b8a73749c7Affected
  • 8016e29f4362e285f0f7e38fadc61a5b7bdfdfa2 to before 9305721a309fa1bd7c194e0d4a2335bf3b29dca4Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.10Affected
  • before 5.10Not affected
  • 5.10.150 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.75 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.17 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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