vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49708): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
6 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C) | Feb 26, 2025 | Mar 3, 2025 | Jun 12, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix bug_on ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
Hulk Robot reported a BUG_ON:
==================================================================
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3211!
[...]
RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used.cold+0x85/0x136f
[...]
Call Trace:
ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x9df/0x5d30
ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1803/0x4d80
ext4_map_blocks+0x3a4/0x1a10
ext4_writepages+0x126d/0x2c30
do_writepages+0x7f/0x1b0
__filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x285/0x3b0
file_write_and_wait_range+0xb1/0x140
ext4_sync_file+0x1aa/0xca0
vfs_fsync_range+0xfb/0x260
do_fsync+0x48/0xa0
[...]
==================================================================
Above issue may happen as follows:
-------------------------------------
do_fsync
vfs_fsync_range
ext4_sync_file
file_write_and_wait_range
__filemap_fdatawrite_range
do_writepages
ext4_writepages
mpage_map_and_submit_extent
mpage_map_one_extent
ext4_map_blocks
ext4_mb_new_blocks
ext4_mb_normalize_request
>>> start + size ac_o_ex.fe_logical
ext4_mb_regular_allocator
ext4_mb_simple_scan_group
ext4_mb_use_best_found
ext4_mb_new_preallocation
ext4_mb_new_inode_pa
ext4_mb_use_inode_pa
>>> set ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len
ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used
>>> BUG_ON(ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len
we can easily reproduce this problem with the following commands:
`fallocate -l100M disk`
`mkfs.ext4 -b 1024 -g 256 disk`
`mount disk /mnt`
`fsstress -d /mnt -l 0 -n 1000 -p 1`
The size must be smaller than or equal to EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP.
Therefore, "start + size ac_o_ex.fe_logical" may occur
when the size is truncated. So start should be the start position of
the group where ac_o_ex.fe_logical is located after alignment.
In addition, when the value of fe_logical or EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP
is very large, the value calculated by start_off is more accurate.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-49708
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49708
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/a08f789d2ab5242c07e716baf9a835725046be89
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5707d721d1819db57dba57b1d4623034fcb32047
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6880fb2e64331b9fdc85d3f32b1d7e81ad8703f1
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fdaf31ad5f3d3afab744dfd9a8b0d9142aa881f
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/887a3e9ad4b8309a2266bce7ae749b2bf1f7a687
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f0f9d45dff0128c0fca0d2358c4153b024afa6
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a08f789d2ab5242c07e716baf9a835725046be89
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a37c1359714da42517dd19d36fc3c4d17edba832
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6b31616e5afe1d3972cb0682a373e50597faf5c
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49708

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