CVE: CVE-2022-50090
Published: 2025-06-18
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: replace BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE with fs_info->max_extent_size

On zoned filesystem, data write out is limited by max_zone_append_size,
and a large ordered extent is split according the size of a bio. OTOH,
the number of extents to be written is calculated using
BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE, and that estimated number is used to reserve the
metadata bytes to update and/or create the metadata items.

The metadata reservation is done at e.g, btrfs_buffered_write() and then
released according to the estimation changes. Thus, if the number of extent
increases massively, the reserved metadata can run out.

The increase of the number of extents easily occurs on zoned filesystem
if BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE > max_zone_append_size. And, it causes the
following warning on a small RAM environment with disabling metadata
over-commit (in the following patch).

[75721.498492] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[75721.505624] BTRFS: block rsv 1 returned -28
[75721.512230] WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 2327559 at fs/btrfs/block-rsv.c:537 btrfs_use_block_rsv+0x560/0x760 [btrfs]
[75721.581854] CPU: 24 PID: 2327559 Comm: kworker/u64:10 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W         5.18.0-rc2-BTRFS-ZNS+ #109
[75721.597200] Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/H12SSL-NT, BIOS 2.0 02/22/2021
[75721.607310] Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
[75721.616209] RIP: 0010:btrfs_use_block_rsv+0x560/0x760 [btrfs]
[75721.646649] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000fbdf3e0 EFLAGS: 00010286
[75721.654126] RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: [PII_REDACTED]
[75721.663524] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: fffff52001f7be6e
[75721.672921] RBP: ffffc9000fbdf420 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: ffff889f8d1fc6c7
[75721.682493] R10: ffffed13f1a3f8d8 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ffff88980a3c0e28
[75721.692284] R13: ffff889b66590000 R14: ffff88980a3c0e40 R15: ffff88980a3c0e8a
[75721.701878] FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff889f8d000000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
[75721.712601] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
[75721.720726] CR2: 000055d12e05c018 CR3: [PII_REDACTED] CR4:[PII_REDACTED]350ee0
[75721.730499] Call Trace:
[75721.735166]  <TASK>
[75721.739886]  btrfs_alloc_tree_block+0x1e1/0x1100 [btrfs]
[75721.747545]  ? btrfs_alloc_logged_file_extent+0x550/0x550 [btrfs]
[75721.756145]  ? btrfs_get_32+0xea/0x2d0 [btrfs]
[75721.762852]  ? btrfs_get_32+0xea/0x2d0 [btrfs]
[75721.769520]  ? push_leaf_left+0x420/0x620 [btrfs]
[75721.776431]  ? memcpy+0x4e/0x60
[75721.781931]  split_leaf+0x433/0x12d0 [btrfs]
[75721.788392]  ? btrfs_get_token_32+0x580/0x580 [btrfs]
[75721.795636]  ? push_for_double_split.isra.0+0x420/0x420 [btrfs]
[75721.803759]  ? leaf_space_used+0x15d/0x1a0 [btrfs]
[75721.811156]  btrfs_search_slot+0x1bc3/0x2790 [btrfs]
[75721.818300]  ? lock_downgrade+0x7c0/0x7c0
[75721.824411]  ? free_extent_buffer.part.0+0x107/0x200 [btrfs]
[75721.832456]  ? split_leaf+0x12d0/0x12d0 [btrfs]
[75721.839149]  ? free_extent_buffer.part.0+0x14f/0x200 [btrfs]
[75721.846945]  ? free_extent_buffer+0x13/0x20 [btrfs]
[75721.853960]  ? btrfs_release_path+0x4b/0x190 [btrfs]
[75721.861429]  btrfs_csum_file_blocks+0x85c/0x1500 [btrfs]
[75721.869313]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x16/0x80
[75721.876085]  ? lock_release+0x552/0xf80
[75721.881957]  ? btrfs_del_csums+0x8c0/0x8c0 [btrfs]
[75721.888886]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20
[75721.895152]  ? do_raw_read_unlock+0x44/0x80
[75721.901323]  ? _raw_write_lock_irq+0x60/0x80
[75721.907983]  ? btrfs_global_root+0xb9/0xe0 [btrfs]
[75721.915166]  ? btrfs_csum_root+0x12b/0x180 [btrfs]
[75721.921918]  ? btrfs_get_global_root+0x820/0x820 [btrfs]
[75721.929166]  ? _raw_write_unlock+0x23/0x40
[75721.935116]  ? unpin_extent_cache+0x1e3/0x390 [btrfs]
[75721.942041]  btrfs_finish_ordered_io.isra.0+0xa0c/0x1dc0 [btrfs]
[75721.949906]  ? try_to_wake_up+0x30/0x14a0
[75721.955700]  ? btrfs_unlink_subvol+0xda0/0xda0 [btrfs]
[75721.962661]  ? rcu
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 7.8 (HIGH)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/096e8eb9639b342bc35f9b741cf05e26d0106e92; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1aa262c1d056551dd1246115af8b7e351184deae; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cb4b96df97082a54634ba[PII_REDACTED]9cda228c