{"id":"CVE-2022-49880","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-49880","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:45:24.163Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix warning in 'ext4_da_release_space' Syzkaller report issue as follows: EXT4-fs (loop0): Free/Dirty block details EXT4-fs (loop0): free_blocks=0 EXT4-fs (loop0): dirty_blocks=0…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix warning in 'ext4_da_release_space'\n\nSyzkaller report issue as follows:\nEXT4-fs (loop0): Free/Dirty block details\nEXT4-fs (loop0): free_blocks=0\nEXT4-fs (loop0): dirty_blocks=0\nEXT4-fs (loop0): Block reservation details\nEXT4-fs (loop0): i_reserved_data_blocks=0\nEXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_da_release_space:1527: ext4_da_release_space: ino 18, to_free 1 with only 0 reserved data blocks\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 92 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1528 ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1524\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 PID: 92 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022\nWorkqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)\nRIP: 0010:ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1528\nRSP: 0018:ffffc900015f6c90 EFLAGS: 00010296\nRAX: 42215896cd52ea00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 42215896cd52ea00\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000001 RDI: 0000000000000000\nRBP: 1ffff1100e907d96 R08: ffffffff816aa79d R09: fffff520002bece5\nR10: fffff520002bece5 R11: 1ffff920002bece4 R12: ffff888021fd2000\nR13: ffff88807483ecb0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88807483e740\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00005555569ba628 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n ext4_es_remove_extent+0x1ab/0x260 fs/ext4/extents_status.c:1461\n mpage_release_unused_pages+0x24d/0xef0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1589\n ext4_writepages+0x12eb/0x3be0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2852\n do_writepages+0x3c3/0x680 mm/page-writeback.c:2469\n __writeback_single_inode+0xd1/0x670 fs/fs-writeback.c:1587\n writeback_sb_inodes+0xb3b/0x18f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870\n wb_writeback+0x41f/0x7b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044\n wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline]\n wb_workfn+0x3cb/0xef0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227\n process_one_work+0x877/0xdb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289\n worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436\n kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306\n </TASK>\n\nAbove issue may happens as follows:\next4_da_write_begin\n  ext4_create_inline_data\n    ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS);\n    ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA);\n__ext4_ioctl\n  ext4_ext_migrate -> will lead to eh->eh_entries not zero, and set extent flag\next4_da_write_begin\n  ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent\n    ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin\n      ext4_da_map_blocks\n        ext4_insert_delayed_block\n\t  if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_delonly, lblk))\n\t    if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_mapped, lblk))\n\t      ext4_clu_mapped(inode, EXT4_B2C(sbi, lblk)); -> will return 1\n\t       allocated = true;\n          ext4_es_insert_delayed_block(inode, lblk, allocated);\next4_writepages\n  mpage_map_and_submit_extent(handle, &mpd, &give_up_on_write); -> return -ENOSPC\n  mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write); -> give_up_on_write == 1\n    ext4_es_remove_extent\n      ext4_da_release_space(inode, reserved);\n        if (unlikely(to_free > ei->i_reserved_data_blocks))\n\t  -> to_free == 1  but ei->i_reserved_data_blocks == 0\n\t  -> then trigger warning as above\n\nTo solve above issue, forbid inode do migrate which has inline data.","published":"2025-05-01T15:16:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:19:24.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00219,"percentile":0.12309,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a43c015e98121c91a76154edf42280ce1a8a883","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de5ee103747fd3a24f1c010c79caabe35e8f0bb","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b8f787ef547230a3249bcf897221ef0cc78481b","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5370b965b7a945bb8f48b9ee23d83a76a947902e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72743d5598b9096950bbfd6a9b7f173d156eea97","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/890d738f569fa9412b70ba09f15407f17a52da20","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89bee03d2fb8c54119b38ac6c24e7d60fae036b6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3bf1e95cfa7d950dc3c064d0c2e3d06b427bc63","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49880","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}