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Unscored CVE-2022-50090 EUVD-2022-55356GHSA-cxv9-gjhh-qgrr

btrfs: replace BTRFS_MAX_EXTENT_SIZE with fs_info->max_extent_size

Published Jun 18, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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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: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000004000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[75721.663524] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: fffff52001f7be6e
[75721.672921] RBP: ffffc9000fbdf420 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff889f8d1fc6c7
[75721.682493] R10: ffffed13f1a3f8d8 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88980a3c0e28
[75721.692284] R13: ffff889b66590000 R14: ffff88980a3c0e40 R15: ffff88980a3c0e8a
[75721.701878] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff889f8d000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[75721.712601] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[75721.720726] CR2: 000055d12e05c018 CR3: 0000800193594000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
[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---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.12 5.15.64

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.0.2-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.0.2-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield No fix yet —
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.10 linux +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux +8 No fix yet —
Show 20 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux +53 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +59 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime +2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-preview 22.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux +21 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +12 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux +7 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux +3 No fix yet —

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