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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2022-50755

udf: Avoid double brelse() in udf_rename()

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < 78eba2778ae10fb2a9d450e14d26eb6f6bf1f906affected
  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < 9d2cad69547abea961fa80426d600b861de1952baffected
  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < d6da7ec0f94f5208c848e0e94b70f54a0bd9c587affected
  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < 156d440dea97deada629bb51cb17887abd862605affected
  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < 40dba68d418237b1ae2beaa06d46a94dd946278eaffected
  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < e7a6a53c871460727be09f4414ccb29fb8697526affected
  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < 4fca09045509f5bde8fc28e68fbca38cb4bdcf2eaffected
  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < 090bf49833c51da297ec74f98ad2bf44daea9311affected
  • 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 to < c791730f2554a9ebb8f18df9368dc27d4ebc38c2affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.2affected
  • 0 to < 4.2unaffected
  • 4.9.337 to ≤ 4.9.*unaffected
  • 4.14.303 to ≤ 4.14.*unaffected
  • 4.19.270 to ≤ 4.19.*unaffected
  • 5.4.229 to ≤ 5.4.*unaffected
  • 5.10.163 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.86 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.0.16 to ≤ 6.0.*unaffected
  • 6.1.2 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.2 to ≤ *unaffected

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