linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50089: btrfs: ensure pages are unlocked on cow_file

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Message-ID: <2025061859-CVE-2022-50089-d0f4@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:02:34 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50089: btrfs: ensure pages are unlocked on cow_file_range() failure

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

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

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

btrfs: ensure pages are unlocked on cow_file_range() failure

There is a hung_task report on zoned btrfs like below.

https://github.com/naota/linux/issues/59

  [726.328648] INFO: task rocksdb:high0:11085 blocked for more than 241 seconds.
  [726.329839]       Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #1
  [726.330484] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  [726.331603] task:rocksdb:high0   state:D stack:    0 pid:11085 ppid: 11082 flags:0x00000000
  [726.331608] Call Trace:
  [726.331611]  <TASK>
  [726.331614]  __schedule+0x2e5/0x9d0
  [726.331622]  schedule+0x58/0xd0
  [726.331626]  io_schedule+0x3f/0x70
  [726.331629]  __folio_lock+0x125/0x200
  [726.331634]  ? find_get_entries+0x1bc/0x240
  [726.331638]  ? filemap_invalidate_unlock_two+0x40/0x40
  [726.331642]  truncate_inode_pages_range+0x5b2/0x770
  [726.331649]  truncate_inode_pages_final+0x44/0x50
  [726.331653]  btrfs_evict_inode+0x67/0x480
  [726.331658]  evict+0xd0/0x180
  [726.331661]  iput+0x13f/0x200
  [726.331664]  do_unlinkat+0x1c0/0x2b0
  [726.331668]  __x64_sys_unlink+0x23/0x30
  [726.331670]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
  [726.331674]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
  [726.331677] RIP: 0033:0x7fb9490a171b
  [726.331681] RSP: 002b:00007fb943ffac68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000057
  [726.331684] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fb9490a171b
  [726.331686] RDX: 00007fb943ffb040 RSI: 000055a6bbe6ec20 RDI: 00007fb94400d300
  [726.331687] RBP: 00007fb943ffad00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  [726.331688] R10: 0000000000000031 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fb943ffb000
  [726.331690] R13: 00007fb943ffb040 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fb943ffd260
  [726.331693]  </TASK>

While we debug the issue, we found running fstests generic/551 on 5GB
non-zoned null_blk device in the emulated zoned mode also had a
similar hung issue.

Also, we can reproduce the same symptom with an error injected
cow_file_range() setup.

The hang occurs when cow_file_range() fails in the middle of
allocation. cow_file_range() called from do_allocation_zoned() can
split the give region ([start, end]) for allocation depending on
current block group usages. When btrfs can allocate bytes for one part
of the split regions but fails for the other region (e.g. because of
-ENOSPC), we return the error leaving the pages in the succeeded regions
locked. Technically, this occurs only when @unlock == 0. Otherwise, we
unlock the pages in an allocated region after creating an ordered
extent.

Considering the callers of cow_file_range(unlock=0) won't write out
the pages, we can unlock the pages on error exit from
cow_file_range(). So, we can ensure all the pages except @locked_page
are unlocked on error case.

In summary, cow_file_range now behaves like this:

- page_started == 1 (return value)
  - All the pages are unlocked. IO is started.
- unlock == 1
  - All the pages except @locked_page are unlocked in any case
- unlock == 0
  - On success, all the pages are locked for writing out them
  - On failure, all the pages except @locked_page are unlocked

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50089 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 42c011000963442ce533d92a492c4a057b2f5a46 and fixed in 5.15.61 with commit b367f125c80fa838eae49e3b138dc67dfc9f46ef
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 42c011000963442ce533d92a492c4a057b2f5a46 and fixed in 5.18.18 with commit 9535ec371d741fa037e37eddc0a5b25ba82d0027
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 42c011000963442ce533d92a492c4a057b2f5a46 and fixed in 5.19.2 with commit e160aa87c87a9c4e0c8d1430235f715a3a91e2cd
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 42c011000963442ce533d92a492c4a057b2f5a46 and fixed in 6.0 with commit 9ce7466f372d83054c7494f6b3e4b9abaf3f0355

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-2022-50089
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/btrfs/inode.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/b367f125c80fa838eae49e3b138dc67dfc9f46ef
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9535ec371d741fa037e37eddc0a5b25ba82d0027
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e160aa87c87a9c4e0c8d1430235f715a3a91e2cd
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ce7466f372d83054c7494f6b3e4b9abaf3f0355