CVE-2022-49913

btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes()

published May 1, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00202 · 9.6th percentile
Published
2025-05-01T14:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:10Z
    btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes()
    cvelistv5