CVE-2022-48674

erofs: fix pcluster use-after-free on UP platforms

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 3, 2024 at 02:51 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 09:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: fix pcluster use-after-free on UP platforms During stress testing with CONFIG_SMP disabled, KASAN reports as below: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_lock+0xe5/0xc30 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881094223f8 by task stress/7789 CPU: 0 PID: 7789 Comm: stress Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1-00002-g0d53d2e882f9 #3 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011 Call Trace: <TASK> .. __mutex_lock+0xe5/0xc30 .. z_erofs_do_read_page+0x8ce/0x1560 .. z_erofs_readahead+0x31c/0x580 .. Freed by task 7787 kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 kasan_set_track+0x20/0x30 kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x40 __kasan_slab_free+0x10c/0x190 kmem_cache_free+0xed/0x380 rcu_core+0x3d5/0xc90 __do_softirq+0x12d/0x389 Last potentially related work creation: kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x97/0xb0 call_rcu+0x3d/0x3f0 erofs_shrink_workstation+0x11f/0x210 erofs_shrink_scan+0xdc/0x170 shrink_slab.constprop.0+0x296/0x530 drop_slab+0x1c/0x70 drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0x70/0x80 proc_sys_call_handler+0x20a/0x2f0 vfs_write+0x555/0x6c0 ksys_write+0xbe/0x160 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 The root cause is that erofs_workgroup_unfreeze() doesn't reset to orig_val thus it causes a race that the pcluster reuses unexpectedly before freeing. Since UP platforms are quite rare now, such path becomes unnecessary. Let's drop such specific-designed path directly instead.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 4.19.26v ≥ 4.20.134.19.26 ≤ v < 4.204.20.13 ≤ v < 4.214.20.13 ≤ v < 5.15.685.0 ≤ v < 5.15.685.0 ≤ v < 5.19.95.0 ≤ v < 6.05.16 ≤ v < 5.19.94.19.264.20.136.0 rc16.0 rc26.0 rc36.0 rc473f5c66df3e26ab750cefcb9a3e08c71c9f79cad78c46113413bea1cc345757112aa2642e0f66de58ec9e6892cc792d7f8fe4d13bd8a0e91fb23488
Vendor states this is fixed in 2f44013e39984c127c6efedf70e6b5f4e9dcf315 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8ddd001cef5e82d19192e6861068463ecca5f556 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 94c34faaafe7b55adc2d8d881db195b646959b9e (fixed)
Affected range stops below 4.20, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.21, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.0 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.68 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.19.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.0 (unaffected)

References (3)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f44013e39984c127c6efedf70e6b5f4e9dcf315
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ddd001cef5e82d19192e6861068463ecca5f556
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94c34faaafe7b55adc2d8d881db195b646959b9e

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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