CVE-2022-50766 (GCVE-0-2022-50766)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 13:05 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:25
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Title
btrfs: set generation before calling btrfs_clean_tree_block in btrfs_init_new_buffer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: set generation before calling btrfs_clean_tree_block in btrfs_init_new_buffer syzbot is reporting uninit-value in btrfs_clean_tree_block() [1], for commit bc877d285ca3dba2 ("btrfs: Deduplicate extent_buffer init code") missed that btrfs_set_header_generation() in btrfs_init_new_buffer() must not be moved to after clean_tree_block() because clean_tree_block() is calling btrfs_header_generation() since commit 55c69072d6bd5be1 ("Btrfs: Fix extent_buffer usage when nodesize != leafsize"). Since memzero_extent_buffer() will reset "struct btrfs_header" part, we can't move btrfs_set_header_generation() to before memzero_extent_buffer(). Just re-add btrfs_set_header_generation() before btrfs_clean_tree_block().
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Linux Linux Affected: bc877d285ca3dba24c52406946a4a69847cc7422 , < 0a408c6212c16b9a2a1141d3c531247582ef8101 (git)
Affected: bc877d285ca3dba24c52406946a4a69847cc7422 , < a687c2890fe4a2acaac6941fa4097a1264d8f3eb (git)
Affected: bc877d285ca3dba24c52406946a4a69847cc7422 , < 89bc41c92d10b905c60f6ec13c9ef664a3555c54 (git)
Affected: bc877d285ca3dba24c52406946a4a69847cc7422 , < cbddcc4fa3443fe8cfb2ff8e210deb1f6a0eea38 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.75 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.19.17 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.3 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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