CVE: CVE-2022-50089
Published: 2025-06-18
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: ensure pages are unlocked on cow_file_range() failure

There is a hung_task report on zoned btrfs like below.

https://github.com/naota/linux/issues/59

  [726.328648] INFO: task rocksdb:high0:11085 blocked for more than 241 seconds.
  [726.329839]       Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1+ #1
  [726.330484] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  [726.331603] task:rocksdb:high0   state:D stack:    0 pid:11085 ppid: 11082 flags:0x00000000
  [726.331608] Call Trace:
  [726.331611]  <TASK>
  [726.331614]  __schedule+0x2e5/0x9d0
  [726.331622]  schedule+0x58/0xd0
  [726.331626]  io_schedule+0x3f/0x70
  [726.331629]  __folio_lock+0x125/0x200
  [726.331634]  ? find_get_entries+0x1bc/0x240
  [726.331638]  ? filemap_invalidate_unlock_two+0x40/0x40
  [726.331642]  truncate_inode_pages_range+0x5b2/0x770
  [726.331649]  truncate_inode_pages_final+0x44/0x50
  [726.331653]  btrfs_evict_inode+0x67/0x480
  [726.331658]  evict+0xd0/0x180
  [726.331661]  iput+0x13f/0x200
  [726.331664]  do_unlinkat+0x1c0/0x2b0
  [726.331668]  __x64_sys_unlink+0x23/0x30
  [726.331670]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
  [726.331674]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
  [726.331677] RIP: 0033:0x7fb9490a171b
  [726.331681] RSP: 002b:00007fb943ffac68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
  [726.331684] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: 00007fb9490a171b
  [726.331686] RDX: 00007fb943ffb040 RSI: 000055a6bbe6ec20 RDI: 00007fb94400d300
  [726.331687] RBP: 00007fb943ffad00 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
  [726.331688] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: 00007fb943ffb000
  [726.331690] R13: 00007fb943ffb040 R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: 00007fb943ffd260
  [726.331693]  </TASK>

While we debug the issue, we found running fstests generic/551 on 5GB
non-zoned null_blk device in the emulated zoned mode also had a
similar hung issue.

Also, we can reproduce the same symptom with an error injected
cow_file_range() setup.

The hang occurs when cow_file_range() fails in the middle of
allocation. cow_file_range() called from do_allocation_zoned() can
split the give region ([start, end]) for allocation depending on
current block group usages. When btrfs can allocate bytes for one part
of the split regions but fails for the other region (e.g. because of
-ENOSPC), we return the error leaving the pages in the succeeded regions
locked. Technically, this occurs only when @unlock == 0. Otherwise, we
unlock the pages in an allocated region after creating an ordered
extent.

Considering the callers of cow_file_range(unlock=0) won't write out
the pages, we can unlock the pages on error exit from
cow_file_range(). So, we can ensure all the pages except @locked_page
are unlocked on error case.

In summary, cow_file_range now behaves like this:

- page_started == 1 (return value)
  - All the pages are unlocked. IO is started.
- unlock == 1
  - All the pages except @locked_page are unlocked in any case
- unlock == 0
  - On success, all the pages are locked for writing out them
  - On failure, all the pages except @locked_page are unlocked
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9535ec371d741fa037e37eddc0a5b25ba82d0027; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ce7466f372d83054c7494f6b3e4b9abaf3f0355; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b367f125c80fa838eae49e3b138dc67dfc9f46ef