Bug 2347895 (CVE-2022-49352)

Summary: CVE-2022-49352 kernel: ext4: fix warning in ext4_handle_inode_extension
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem, which can lead to inconsistencies between an inode's in-memory size (i_size) and its on-disk size (i_disksize). This issue occurs when a file's size is increased, but the operation fails to mark the inode as dirty due to memory allocation errors (e.g., -ENOMEM). Consequently, i_disksize is updated while i_size remains unchanged, triggering warnings during direct I/O write operations, which can cause filesystem instability.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:10:29 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix warning in ext4_handle_inode_extension

We got issue as follows:
EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:5741: Out of memory
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_setattr:5462: inode #13: comm syz-executor.0: mark_inode_dirty error
EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_setattr:5519: Out of memory
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_ind_map_blocks:595: inode #13: comm syz-executor.0: Can't allocate blocks for non-extent mapped inodes with bigalloc
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4361 at fs/ext4/file.c:301 ext4_file_write_iter+0x11c9/0x1220
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 4361 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.10.0+ #1
RIP: 0010:ext4_file_write_iter+0x11c9/0x1220
RSP: 0018:ffff924d80b27c00 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: ffffffff815a3379 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000003b000000
RDX: ffff924d81601000 RSI: 00000000000009cc RDI: 00000000000009cd
RBP: 000000000000000d R08: ffffffffbc5a2c6b R09: 0000902e0e52a96f
R10: ffff902e2b7c1b40 R11: ffff902e2b7c1b40 R12: 000000000000000a
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff902e0e52aa10 R15: ffffffffffffff8b
FS:  00007f81a7f65700(0000) GS:ffff902e3bc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffff600400 CR3: 000000012db88001 CR4: 00000000003706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 do_iter_readv_writev+0x2e5/0x360
 do_iter_write+0x112/0x4c0
 do_pwritev+0x1e5/0x390
 __x64_sys_pwritev2+0x7e/0xa0
 do_syscall_64+0x37/0x50
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Above issue may happen as follows:
Assume
inode.i_size=4096
EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize=4096

step 1: set inode->i_isize = 8192
ext4_setattr
  if (attr->ia_size != inode->i_size)
    EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = attr->ia_size;
    rc = ext4_mark_inode_dirty
       ext4_reserve_inode_write
          ext4_get_inode_loc
            __ext4_get_inode_loc
              sb_getblk --> return -ENOMEM
   ...
   if (!error)  ->will not update i_size
     i_size_write(inode, attr->ia_size);
Now:
inode.i_size=4096
EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize=8192

step 2: Direct write 4096 bytes
ext4_file_write_iter
 ext4_dio_write_iter
   iomap_dio_rw ->return error
 if (extend)
   ext4_handle_inode_extension
     WARN_ON_ONCE(i_size_read(inode) < EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize);
->Then trigger warning.

To solve above issue, if mark inode dirty failed in ext4_setattr just
set 'EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize' with old value.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 19:36:38 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022642-CVE-2022-49352-f7cf@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-28 00:20:14 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022642-CVE-2022-49352-f7cf@gregkh/T

Comment 7 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-28 04:26:24 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022642-CVE-2022-49352-f7cf@gregkh/T