linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50021: ext4: block range must be validated before use in ext4_mb_clear

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Message-ID: <2025061835-CVE-2022-50021-2162@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:01:26 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50021: ext4: block range must be validated before use in ext4_mb_clear_bb()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

ext4: block range must be validated before use in ext4_mb_clear_bb()

Block range to free is validated in ext4_free_blocks() using
ext4_inode_block_valid() and then it's passed to ext4_mb_clear_bb().
However in some situations on bigalloc file system the range might be
adjusted after the validation in ext4_free_blocks() which can lead to
troubles on corrupted file systems such as one found by syzkaller that
resulted in the following BUG

kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:3319!
PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 28 PID: 4243 Comm: repro Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1.fc35 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ext4_free_blocks+0x95e/0xa90
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80
 ? __es_remove_extent+0x5a/0x760
 ? __mod_timer+0x256/0x380
 ? ext4_ind_truncate_ensure_credits+0x90/0x220
 ext4_clear_blocks+0x107/0x1b0
 ext4_free_data+0x15b/0x170
 ext4_ind_truncate+0x214/0x2c0
 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30
 ? ext4_discard_preallocations+0x15a/0x410
 ? ext4_journal_check_start+0xe/0x90
 ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2f/0x110
 ext4_truncate+0x1b5/0x460
 ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2f/0x110
 ext4_evict_inode+0x2b4/0x6f0
 evict+0xd0/0x1d0
 ext4_enable_quotas+0x11f/0x1f0
 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x3de/0x430
 ? proc_create_seq_private+0x43/0x50
 ext4_fill_super+0x295f/0x3ae0
 ? snprintf+0x39/0x40
 ? sget_fc+0x19c/0x330
 ? ext4_reconfigure+0x850/0x850
 get_tree_bdev+0x16d/0x260
 vfs_get_tree+0x25/0xb0
 path_mount+0x431/0xa70
 __x64_sys_mount+0xe2/0x120
 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x80
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x1e2/0x670
 ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x170
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7fdf4e512ace

Fix it by making sure that the block range is properly validated before
used every time it changes in ext4_free_blocks() or ext4_mb_clear_bb().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50021 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 5.10.175 with commit 7550aade978371ac582f6d43b14c4cb89ca54463
	Fixed in 5.15.103 with commit 560a2744cbbf03cac65a6394f9b0d99aa437c867
	Fixed in 5.19.4 with commit a2522041d248a8c969cbbc97e1fc2cd8b4de120d
	Fixed in 6.0 with commit 1e1c2b86ef86a8477fd9b9a4f48a6bfe235606f6

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-50021
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/ext4/mballoc.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7550aade978371ac582f6d43b14c4cb89ca54463
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/560a2744cbbf03cac65a6394f9b0d99aa437c867
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2522041d248a8c969cbbc97e1fc2cd8b4de120d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e1c2b86ef86a8477fd9b9a4f48a6bfe235606f6