CVE-2022-50730

ext4: silence the warning when evicting inode with dioread_nolock

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

ext4: silence the warning when evicting inode with dioread_nolock

When evicting an inode with default dioread_nolock, it could be raced by the unwritten extents converting kworker after writeback some new allocated dirty blocks. It convert unwritten extents to written, the extents could be merged to upper level and free extent blocks, so it could mark the inode dirty again even this inode has been marked I_FREEING. But the inode->i_io_list check and warning in ext4_evict_inode() missing this corner case. Fortunately, ext4_evict_inode() will wait all extents converting finished before this check, so it will not lead to inode use-after-free problem, every thing is OK besides this warning. The WARN_ON_ONCE was originally designed for finding inode use-after-free issues in advance, but if we add current dioread_nolock case in, it will become not quite useful, so fix this warning by just remove this check.

====== WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1092 at fs/ext4/inode.c:227 ext4_evict_inode+0x875/0xc60 ... RIP: 0010:ext4_evict_inode+0x875/0xc60 ... Call Trace: <TASK> evict+0x11c/0x2b0 iput+0x236/0x3a0 do_unlinkat+0x1b4/0x490 __x64_sys_unlinkat+0x4c/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 RIP: 0033:0x7fa933c1115b ======

rm kworker ext4_end_io_end() vfs_unlink() ext4_unlink() ext4_convert_unwritten_io_end_vec() ext4_convert_unwritten_extents() ext4_map_blocks() ext4_ext_map_blocks() ext4_ext_try_to_merge_up() __mark_inode_dirty() check !I_FREEING locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() iput() iput_final() evict() ext4_evict_inode() truncate_inode_pages_final() //wait release io_end inode_io_list_move_locked() ext4_release_io_end() trigger WARN_ON_ONCE()

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • ceff86fddae8748fe00d4f2d249cb02cae62ad84 to before bdc698ce91f232fd5eb11d2373e9f82f687314b8Affected
  • ceff86fddae8748fe00d4f2d249cb02cae62ad84 to before 0d041b7251c13679a0f6c7926751ce1d8a7237c1Affected
  • ceff86fddae8748fe00d4f2d249cb02cae62ad84 to before 3b893cc9a8d8b4e486a6639f5e107b56b7197d2eAffected
  • ceff86fddae8748fe00d4f2d249cb02cae62ad84 to before b085fb43feede48ebf80ab7e2dd150c8d9902932Affected
  • ceff86fddae8748fe00d4f2d249cb02cae62ad84 to before bc12ac98ea2e1b70adc6478c8b473a0003b659d3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 5.10.163 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.87 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.18 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1.4 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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