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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-49317 json

f2fs: avoid infinite loop to flush node pages

published 2025-02-26 20 mo ago modified 2026-08-15 2 mo ago also EUVD-2022-54910

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

f2fs: avoid infinite loop to flush node pages

xfstests/generic/475 can give EIO all the time which give an infinite loop to flush node page like below. Let's avoid it.

[16418.518551] Call Trace: [16418.518553] ? dm_submit_bio+0x48/0x400 [16418.518574] ? submit_bio_checks+0x1ac/0x5a0 [16418.525207] __submit_bio+0x1a9/0x230 [16418.525210] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x29e/0x3c0 [16418.525223] submit_bio_noacct+0xa8/0x2b0 [16418.525226] submit_bio+0x4d/0x130 [16418.525238] __submit_bio+0x49/0x310 [f2fs] [16418.525339] ? bio_add_page+0x6a/0x90 [16418.525344] f2fs_submit_page_bio+0x134/0x1f0 [f2fs] [16418.525365] read_node_page+0x125/0x1b0 [f2fs] [16418.525388] __get_node_page.part.0+0x58/0x3f0 [f2fs] [16418.525409] __get_node_page+0x2f/0x60 [f2fs] [16418.525431] f2fs_get_dnode_of_data+0x423/0x860 [f2fs] [16418.525452] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525458] ? __mod_memcg_state.part.0+0x2a/0x30 [16418.525465] ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x27/0x40 [16418.525467] ? __xa_set_mark+0x57/0x70 [16418.525472] f2fs_do_write_data_page+0x10e/0x7b0 [f2fs] [16418.525493] f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x555/0x830 [f2fs] [16418.525514] ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4e/0x90 [16418.525518] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525523] f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x303/0x880 [f2fs] [16418.525545] ? blk_flush_plug_list+0x47/0x100 [16418.525548] f2fs_write_data_pages+0xfd/0x320 [f2fs] [16418.525569] do_writepages+0xd5/0x210 [16418.525648] filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x7d/0xc0 [16418.525655] filemap_fdatawrite+0x50/0x70 [16418.525658] f2fs_sync_dirty_inodes+0xa4/0x230 [f2fs] [16418.525679] f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x16d/0x1720 [f2fs] [16418.525699] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x1c/0x160 [16418.525709] ? ttwu_do_activate+0x6d/0xd0 [16418.525711] ? __wait_for_common+0x11d/0x150 [16418.525715] kill_f2fs_super+0xca/0x100 [f2fs] [16418.525733] deactivate_locked_super+0x3b/0xb0 [16418.525739] deactivate_super+0x40/0x50 [16418.525741] cleanup_mnt+0x139/0x190 [16418.525747] __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20 [16418.525749] task_work_run+0x6d/0xa0 [16418.525765] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1ad/0x1b0 [16418.525771] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x50 [16418.525774] do_syscall_64+0x48/0xc0 [16418.525776] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.18.4, 5.19
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.18.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49317

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-49317 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: f2fs: avoid infinite loop to flush node pages

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
13 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
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References

Sources

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