Bug 2363512 (CVE-2022-49914) - CVE-2022-49914 kernel: btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at resolve_indirect_refs()
Summary: CVE-2022-49914 kernel: btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at r...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49914
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-17 17:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:07:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at resolve_indirect_refs()

During backref walking, at resolve_indirect_refs(), if we get an error
we jump to the 'out' label and call ulist_free() on the 'parents' ulist,
which frees all the elements in the ulist - however that does not free
any inode lists that may be attached to elements, through the 'aux' field
of a ulist node, so we end up leaking lists if we have any attached to
the unodes.

Fix this by calling free_leaf_list() instead of ulist_free() when we exit
from resolve_indirect_refs(). The static function free_leaf_list() is
moved up for this to be possible and it's slightly simplified by removing
unnecessary code.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 06:19:12 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050106-CVE-2022-49914-42a6@gregkh/T


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