CVE-2022-50021
CVE-2022-50021CVE-2022-50021
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: block range must be validated before use in ext4_mb_clear_bb()
Block range to free is validated in ext4_free_blocks() using
ext4_inode_block_valid() and then it's passed to ext4_mb_clear_bb().
However in some situations on bigalloc file system the range might be
adjusted after the validation in ext4_free_blocks() which can lead to
troubles on corrupted file systems such as one found by syzkaller that
resulted in the following BUG
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:3319!
PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 28 PID: 4243 Comm: repro Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1.fc35 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ext4_free_blocks+0x95e/0xa90
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80
? __es_remove_extent+0x5a/0x760
? __mod_timer+0x256/0x380
? ext4_ind_truncate_ensure_credits+0x90/0x220
ext4_clear_blocks+0x107/0x1b0
ext4_free_data+0x15b/0x170
ext4_ind_truncate+0x214/0x2c
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-11-05 |