CVE-2022-50379

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50379
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50379.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50379
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-18T13:33:01.502Z
Modified
2026-04-02T08:28:28.118875Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
btrfs: fix race between quota enable and quota rescan ioctl
Details

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

btrfs: fix race between quota enable and quota rescan ioctl

When enabling quotas, at btrfsquotaenable(), after committing the transaction, we change fsinfo->quotaroot to point to the quota root we created and set BTRFSFSQUOTAENABLED at fsinfo->flags. Then we try to start the qgroup rescan worker, first by initializing it with a call to qgrouprescaninit() - however if that fails we end up freeing the quota root but we leave fsinfo->quotaroot still pointing to it, this can later result in a use-after-free somewhere else.

We have previously set the flags BTRFSFSQUOTAENABLED and BTRFSQGROUPSTATUSFLAGON, so we can only fail with -EINPROGRESS at btrfsquota_enable(), which is possible if someone already called the quota rescan ioctl, and therefore started the rescan worker.

So fix this by ignoring an -EINPROGRESS and asserting we can't get any other error.

Database specific
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    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50379.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5d23515be66904fa3b1b5d6bd72d2199cd2447ab
Fixed
c97f6d528c3f1c83a6b792a8a7928c236c80b8fe
Fixed
26b7c0ac49a3eea15559c9d84863736a6d1164b4
Fixed
47b5ffe86332af95f0f52be0a63d4da7c2b37b55
Fixed
4b996a3014ef014af8f97b60c35f5289210a4720
Fixed
0efd9dfc00d677a1d0929319a6103cb2dfc41c22
Fixed
6c22f86dd221eba0c7af645b1af73dcbc04ee27b
Fixed
331cd9461412e103d07595a10289de90004ac890

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50379.json"