CVE: CVE-2022-49880
Published: 2025-05-01
Description: 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
EXT4-fs (loop0): Block reservation details
EXT4-fs (loop0): i_reserved_data_blocks=0
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_da_release_space:1527: ext4_da_release_space: ino 18, to_free 1 with only 0 reserved data blocks
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 92 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1528 ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1524
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 92 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
RIP: 0010:ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1528
RSP: 0018:ffffc900015f6c90 EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: 42215896cd52ea00 RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: 42215896cd52ea00
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: 1ffff1100e907d96 R08: ffffffff816aa79d R09: fffff520002bece5
R10: fffff520002bece5 R11: 1ffff920002bece4 R12: ffff888021fd2000
R13: ffff88807483ecb0 R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: ffff88807483e740
FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2:[PII_REDACTED]9ba628 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]3506f0
DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ext4_es_remove_extent+0x1ab/0x260 fs/ext4/extents_status.c:1461
 mpage_release_unused_pages+0x24d/0xef0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1589
 ext4_writepages+0x12eb/0x3be0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2852
 do_writepages+0x3c3/0x680 mm/page-writeback.c:2469
 __writeback_single_inode+0xd1/0x670 fs/fs-writeback.c:1587
 writeback_sb_inodes+0xb3b/0x18f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870
 wb_writeback+0x41f/0x7b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044
 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline]
 wb_workfn+0x3cb/0xef0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227
 process_one_work+0x877/0xdb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
 worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
 kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
 </TASK>

Above issue may happens as follows:
ext4_da_write_begin
  ext4_create_inline_data
    ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS);
    ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA);
__ext4_ioctl
  ext4_ext_migrate -> will lead to eh->eh_entries not zero, and set extent flag
ext4_da_write_begin
  ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent
    ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin
      ext4_da_map_blocks
        ext4_insert_delayed_block
	  if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_delonly, lblk))
	    if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_mapped, lblk))
	      ext4_clu_mapped(inode, EXT4_B2C(sbi, lblk)); -> will return 1
	       allocated = true;
          ext4_es_insert_delayed_block(inode, lblk, allocated);
ext4_writepages
  mpage_map_and_submit_extent(handle, &mpd, &give_up_on_write); -> return -ENOSPC
  mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write); -> give_up_on_write == 1
    ext4_es_remove_extent
      ext4_da_release_space(inode, reserved);
        if (unlikely(to_free > ei->i_reserved_data_blocks))
	  -> to_free == 1  but ei->i_reserved_data_blocks == 0
	  -> then trigger warning as above

To solve above issue, forbid inode do migrate which has inline data.
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a43c015e98121c91a76154edf42280ce1a8a883; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de5ee103747fd3a24f1c010c79caabe35e8f0bb; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b8f787ef547230a3249bcf897221ef0cc78481b