CVE-2022-49913: vulnerability in Linux
btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes()
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 91% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes()
During backref walking, at find_parent_nodes(), if we are dealing with a
data extent and we get an error while resolving the indirect backrefs, at
resolve_indirect_refs(), or in the while loop that iterates over the refs
in the direct refs rbtree, we end up leaking the inode lists attached to
the direct refs we have in the direct refs rbtree that were not yet added
to the refs ulist passed as argument to find_parent_nodes(). Since they
were not yet added to the refs ulist and prelim_release() does not free
the lists, on error the caller can only free the lists attached to the
refs that were added to the refs ulist, all the remaining refs get their
inode lists never freed, therefore leaking their memory.
Fix this by having prelim_release() always free any attached inode list
to each ref found in the rbtree, and have find_parent_nodes() set the
ref's inode list to NULL once it transfers ownership of the inode list
to a ref added to the refs ulist passed to find_parent_nodes().
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/222a3d533027b9492d5b7f5ecdc01a90f57bb5a9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61e06128113711df0534c404fb6bb528eb7d2332https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a6731a0df8c47ecc703bd7bb73459df767051e0https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83ea8c5b54d452a5769e605e3c5c687e8ca06d89https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92876eec382a0f19f33d09d2c939e9ca49038ae5