CVE-2022-50021

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: block range must be validated before use in ext4_mb_clear_bb()

Block range to free is validated in ext4_free_blocks() using ext4_inode_block_valid() and then it's passed to ext4_mb_clear_bb(). However in some situations on bigalloc file system the range might be adjusted after the validation in ext4_free_blocks() which can lead to troubles on corrupted file systems such as one found by syzkaller that resulted in the following BUG

kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:3319! PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 28 PID: 4243 Comm: repro Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6+ #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1.fc35 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:ext4_free_blocks+0x95e/0xa90 Call Trace: <TASK> ? lock_timer_base+0x61/0x80 ? __es_remove_extent+0x5a/0x760 ? __mod_timer+0x256/0x380 ? ext4_ind_truncate_ensure_credits+0x90/0x220 ext4_clear_blocks+0x107/0x1b0 ext4_free_data+0x15b/0x170 ext4_ind_truncate+0x214/0x2c0 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30 ? ext4_discard_preallocations+0x15a/0x410 ? ext4_journal_check_start+0xe/0x90 ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2f/0x110 ext4_truncate+0x1b5/0x460 ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2f/0x110 ext4_evict_inode+0x2b4/0x6f0 evict+0xd0/0x1d0 ext4_enable_quotas+0x11f/0x1f0 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0x3de/0x430 ? proc_create_seq_private+0x43/0x50 ext4_fill_super+0x295f/0x3ae0 ? snprintf+0x39/0x40 ? sget_fc+0x19c/0x330 ? ext4_reconfigure+0x850/0x850 get_tree_bdev+0x16d/0x260 vfs_get_tree+0x25/0xb0 path_mount+0x431/0xa70 __x64_sys_mount+0xe2/0x120 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x80 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x1e2/0x670 ? exc_page_fault+0x70/0x170 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 RIP: 0033:0x7fdf4e512ace

Fix it by making sure that the block range is properly validated before used every time it changes in ext4_free_blocks() or ext4_mb_clear_bb().

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jun 18, 2025
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2022-50021: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix