Bug 2348038 (CVE-2022-49348) - CVE-2022-49348 kernel: ext4: filter out EXT4_FC_REPLAY from on-disk superblock field s_state
Summary: CVE-2022-49348 kernel: ext4: filter out EXT4_FC_REPLAY from on-disk superbloc...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49348
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:15 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-16 12:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:15:28 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: filter out EXT4_FC_REPLAY from on-disk superblock field s_state

The EXT4_FC_REPLAY bit in sbi->s_mount_state is used to indicate that
we are in the middle of replay the fast commit journal.  This was
actually a mistake, since the sbi->s_mount_info is initialized from
es->s_state.  Arguably s_mount_state is misleadingly named, but the
name is historical --- s_mount_state and s_state dates back to ext2.

What should have been used is the ext4_{set,clear,test}_mount_flag()
inline functions, which sets EXT4_MF_* bits in sbi->s_mount_flags.

The problem with using EXT4_FC_REPLAY is that a maliciously corrupted
superblock could result in EXT4_FC_REPLAY getting set in
s_mount_state.  This bypasses some sanity checks, and this can trigger
a BUG() in ext4_es_cache_extent().  As a easy-to-backport-fix, filter
out the EXT4_FC_REPLAY bit for now.  We should eventually transition
away from EXT4_FC_REPLAY to something like EXT4_MF_REPLAY.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 20:29:36 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022642-CVE-2022-49348-d5db@gregkh/T


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