CVE-2022-50782: kernel: ext4: fix bug_on in __es_tree_search caused by bad quota inode
Component: kernel
Severity: Low
CWE: CWE-1288 (Improper Validation of Consistency within Input)
CVSS v3: 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Public date: 2025-12-24T00:00:00+00:00

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

ext4: fix bug_on in __es_tree_search caused by bad quota inode

We got a issue as fllows:
==================================================================
 kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents_status.c:202!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 1 PID: 810 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1-next-g9631525255e3 #352
 RIP: 0010:__es_tree_search.isra.0+0xb8/0xe0
 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001227900 EFLAGS: 00010202
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000077512a0f RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000002a10 RDI: ffff8881004cd0c8
 RBP: ffff888177512ac8 R08: 47ffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000001
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000000679af R12: 0000000000002a10
 R13: ffff888177512d88 R14: 0000000077512a10 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS: 00007f4bd76dbc40(0000)GS:ffff88842fd00000(0000)knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00005653bf993cf8 CR3: 000000017bfdf000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ext4_es_cache_extent+0xe2/0x210
  ext4_cache_extents+0xd2/0x110
  ext4_find_extent+0x5d5/0x8c0
  ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x9c/0x1d30
  ext4_map_blocks+0x431/0xa50
  ext4_getblk+0x82/0x340
  ext4_bread+0x14/0x110
  ext4_quota_read+0xf0/0x180
  v2_read_header+0x24/0x90
  v2_check_quota_file+0x2f/0xa0
  dquot_load_quota_sb+0x26c/0x760
  dquot_load_quota_inode+0xa5/0x190
  ext4_enable_quotas+0x14c/0x300
  __ext4_fill_super+0x31cc/0x32c0
  ext4_fill_super+0x115/0x2d0
  get_tree_bdev+0x1d2/0x360
  ext4_get_tree+0x19/0x30
  vfs_get_tree+0x26/0xe0
  path_mount+0x81d/0xfc0
  do_mount+0x8d/0xc0
  __x64_sys_mount+0xc0/0x160
  do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
  </TASK>
==================================================================

Above issue may happen as follows:
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ext4_fill_super
 ext4_orphan_cleanup
  ext4_enable_quotas
   ext4_quota_enable
    ext4_iget --> get error inode <5>
     ext4_ext_check_inode --> Wrong imode makes it escape inspection
     make_bad_inode(inode) --> EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO set imode
    dquot_load_quota_inode
     vfs_setup_quota_inode --> check pass
     dquot_load_quota_sb
      v2_check_quota_file
       v2_read_header
        ext4_quota_read
         ext4_bread
          ext4_getblk
           ext4_map_blocks
            ext4_ext_map_blocks
             ext4_find_extent
              ext4_cache_extents
               ext4_es_cache_extent
                __es_tree_search.isra.0
                 ext4_es_end --> Wrong extents trigger BUG_ON

In the above issue, s_usr_quota_inum is set to 5, but inode<5> contains
incorrect imode and disordered extents. Because 5 is EXT4_BOOT_LOADER_INO,
the ext4_ext_check_inode check in the ext4_iget function can be bypassed,
finally, the extents that are not checked trigger the BUG_ON in the
__es_tree_search function. To solve this issue, check whether the inode is
bad_inode in vfs_setup_quota_inode().


Affected upstream versions: 3.10
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 4.19.270, 5.10.163, 5.15.87, 5.4.229, 6.0.18, 6.1.4, 6.2
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: fb1d3b4107b4837b4a0dbbf01954269bd6acfdc3