# CVE-2022-48664: btrfs: fix hang during unmount when stopping a space reclaim worker

> A flaw in the Linux kernel btrfs filesystem causes a system hang during unmount, leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 28 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48664, GHSA-w94g-q3rj-7p4m, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48664

## What is CVE-2022-48664?

CVE-2022-48664 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

btrfs: fix hang during unmount when stopping a space reclaim worker

Often when running generic/562 from fstests we can hang during unmount,
resulting in a trace like this:

  Sep 07 11:52:00 debian9 unknown: run fstests generic/562 at 2022-09-07 11:52:00
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: INFO: task umount:49438 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:       Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-btrfs-next-122 #1
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: task:umount          state:D stack:    0 pid:49438 ppid: 25683 flags:0x00004000
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: Call Trace:
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  <TASK>
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  __schedule+0x3c8/0xec0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x12/0x70
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  schedule+0x5d/0xf0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  schedule_timeout+0xf1/0x130
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? lock_release+0x224/0x4a0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? lock_acquired+0x1a0/0x420
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2c/0xd0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  __wait_for_common+0xac/0x200
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? usleep_range_state+0xb0/0xb0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  __flush_work+0x26d/0x530
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? flush_workqueue_prep_pwqs+0x140/0x140
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? trace_clock_local+0xc/0x30
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  __cancel_work_timer+0x11f/0x1b0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? close_ctree+0x12b/0x5b3 [btrfs]
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? __trace_bputs+0x10b/0x170
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  close_ctree+0x152/0x5b3 [btrfs]
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  ? evict_inodes+0x166/0x1c0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  generic_shutdown_super+0x71/0x120
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  kill_anon_super+0x14/0x30
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  btrfs_kill_super+0x12/0x20 [btrfs]
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  deactivate_locked_super+0x2e/0xa0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  cleanup_mnt+0x100/0x160
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  task_work_run+0x59/0xa0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1a6/0x1b0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: RIP: 0033:0x7fcde59a57a7
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: RSP: 002b:00007ffe914217c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007fcde5ae8264 RCX: 00007fcde59a57a7
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 000055b57556cdd0
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: RBP: 000055b57556cba0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffe91420570
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel: R13: 000055b57556cdd0 R14: 000055b57556ccb8 R15: 0000000000000000
  Sep 07 11:55:32 debian9 kernel:  </TASK>

What happens is the following:

1) The cleaner kthread tries to start a transaction to delete an unused
   block group, but the metadata reservation can not be satisfied right
   away, so a reservation ticket is created and it starts the async
   metadata reclaim task (fs_info->async_reclaim_work);

2) Writeback for all the filler inodes with an i_size of 2K starts
   (generic/562 creates a lot of 2K files with the goal of filling
   metadata space). We try to create an inline extent for them, but we
   fail when trying to insert the inline extent with -ENOSPC (at
   cow_file_range_inline()) - since this is not critical, we fallback
   to non-inline mode (back to cow_file_range()), reserve extents
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## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48664?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-48664?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-48664 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48664 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48664 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-48664 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48664 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48664/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48664/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48664
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48664
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48664

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48664/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.