btrfs: release correct delalloc amount in direct IO write path
Published Feb 26, 2025
5.5
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.26%
Description
Running generic/406 causes the following WARNING in btrfs_destroy_inode() which tells there are outstanding extents left.
In btrfs_get_blocks_direct_write(), we reserve a temporary outstanding extents with btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata() (or indirectly from btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space(()). We then release the outstanding extents with btrfs_delalloc_release_extents(). However, the "len" can be modified in the COW case, which releases fewer outstanding extents than expected.
Fix it by calling btrfs_delalloc_release_extents() for the original length.
To reproduce the warning, the filesystem should be 1 GiB. It's triggering a short-write, due to not being able to allocate a large extent and instead allocating a smaller one.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 757 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:8848 btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1e6/0x210 [btrfs] Modules linked in: btrfs blake2b_generic xor lzo_compress lzo_decompress raid6_pq zstd zstd_decompress zstd_compress xxhash zram zsmalloc CPU: 0 PID: 757 Comm: umount Not tainted 5.17.0-rc8+ #101 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS d55cb5a 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:btrfs_destroy_inode+0x1e6/0x210 [btrfs] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000327bda8 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888100548b78 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000026900 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888100548b78 RBP: ffff888100548940 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88810b48aba8 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff8881004eb240 R12: ffff88810b48a800 R13: ffff88810b48ec08 R14: ffff88810b48ed00 R15: ffff888100490c68 FS: 00007f8549ea0b80(0000) GS:ffff888237c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f854a09e733 CR3: 000000010a2e9003 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> destroy_inode+0x33/0x70 dispose_list+0x43/0x60 evict_inodes+0x161/0x1b0 generic_shutdown_super+0x2d/0x110 kill_anon_super+0xf/0x20 btrfs_kill_super+0xd/0x20 [btrfs] deactivate_locked_super+0x27/0x90 cleanup_mnt+0x12c/0x180 task_work_run+0x54/0x80 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x152/0x160 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x42/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f854a000fb7
Affected products
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- Version 5.15.27StatusaffectedConstraints<5.15.35
- Version 5.16.13StatusaffectedConstraints<5.17
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- Version 5.17StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 0StatusunaffectedConstraints<5.17
- Version 5.15.35StatusunaffectedConstraints<=5.15.*
- Version 5.17.4StatusunaffectedConstraints<=5.17.*
- Version 5.18StatusunaffectedConstraints<=*
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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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- ≥ 5.15.27 · < 5.15.35
- ≥ 5.16.13 · < 5.17.4
- 5.18
- 5.18
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
kernel
Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
kernel
Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
kernel-rt
Out of support scope
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
kernel-rt
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
kernel-rt
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Out of support scope | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel | Out of support scope | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Out of support scope | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel-rt | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | kernel-rt | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
References (9)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-49068 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2347888 Issue Tracking
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-55136 Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07cacfd9d9dc134557ac8866c73d570a59b3d1f3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d82ad13c4110e73c7b0392f00534a1502a1b520 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a04d37ddfe4be431b9e52e8504490376ab0a39a4 Patch
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022654-CVE-2022-49068-aa1b@gregkh/T
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49068
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49068
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