Bug 2425172 (CVE-2022-50755) - CVE-2022-50755 kernel: Linux kernel UDF filesystem: Denial of Service due to memory corruption during rename operations
Summary: CVE-2022-50755 kernel: Linux kernel UDF filesystem: Denial of Service due to ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50755
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 14:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-12 14:51 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 14:08:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

udf: Avoid double brelse() in udf_rename()

syzbot reported a warning like below [1]:

VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 7301 at fs/buffer.c:1145 __brelse+0x67/0xa0
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 invalidate_bh_lru+0x99/0x150
 smp_call_function_many_cond+0xe2a/0x10c0
 ? generic_remap_file_range_prep+0x50/0x50
 ? __brelse+0xa0/0xa0
 ? __mutex_lock+0x21c/0x12d0
 ? smp_call_on_cpu+0x250/0x250
 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xb/0x60
 ? lock_release+0x587/0x810
 ? __brelse+0xa0/0xa0
 ? generic_remap_file_range_prep+0x50/0x50
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3c/0x80
 blkdev_flush_mapping+0x13a/0x2f0
 blkdev_put_whole+0xd3/0xf0
 blkdev_put+0x222/0x760
 deactivate_locked_super+0x96/0x160
 deactivate_super+0xda/0x100
 cleanup_mnt+0x222/0x3d0
 task_work_run+0x149/0x240
 ? task_work_cancel+0x30/0x30
 do_exit+0xb29/0x2a40
 ? reacquire_held_locks+0x4a0/0x4a0
 ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x12a/0x2b0
 ? mm_update_next_owner+0x7c0/0x7c0
 ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
 ? zap_other_threads+0x234/0x2d0
 do_group_exit+0xd0/0x2a0
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3a/0x50
 do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The cause of the issue is that brelse() is called on both ofibh.sbh
and ofibh.ebh by udf_find_entry() when it returns NULL.  However,
brelse() is called by udf_rename(), too.  So, b_count on buffer_head
becomes unbalanced.

This patch fixes the issue by not calling brelse() by udf_rename()
when udf_find_entry() returns NULL.


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