CVE-2022-50379

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix race between quota enable and quota rescan ioctl When enabling quotas, at btrfs_quota_enable(), after committing the transaction, we change fs_info->quota_root to point to the quota root we created and set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED at fs_info->flags. Then we try to start the qgroup rescan worker, first by initializing it with a call to qgroup_rescan_init() - however if that fails we end up freeing the quota root but we leave fs_info->quota_root still pointing to it, this can later result in a use-after-free somewhere else. We have previously set the flags BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED and BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_ON, so we can only fail with -EINPROGRESS at btrfs_quota_enable(), which is possible if someone already called the quota rescan ioctl, and therefore started the rescan worker. So fix this by ignoring an -EINPROGRESS and asserting we can't get any other error.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.7
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedSep 18, 2025
First seenSep 18, 2025

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv < 4.19.262, 4.20 ≤ v < 5.4.220, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.150, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.75, 5.16 ≤ v < 5.19.17, 6.0 ≤ v < 6.0.34.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.150, 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3

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