# CVE-2022-48833: btrfs: skip reserved bytes warning on unmount after log cleanup failure

> A bug in the Linux kernel's btrfs filesystem causes a warning and potential instability during unmount after log cleanup failure, 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:** 16 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 27 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-68246, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48833, GHSA-vp69-366h-2hqh, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-48833, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48833

## What is CVE-2022-48833?

CVE-2022-48833 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Jul 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: skip reserved bytes warning on unmount after log cleanup failure

After the recent changes made by commit c2e39305299f01 ("btrfs: clear
extent buffer uptodate when we fail to write it") and its followup fix,
commit 651740a5024117 ("btrfs: check WRITE_ERR when trying to read an
extent buffer"), we can now end up not cleaning up space reservations of
log tree extent buffers after a transaction abort happens, as well as not
cleaning up still dirty extent buffers.

This happens because if writeback for a log tree extent buffer failed,
then we have cleared the bit EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE from the extent buffer
and we have also set the bit EXTENT_BUFFER_WRITE_ERR on it. Later on,
when trying to free the log tree with free_log_tree(), which iterates
over the tree, we can end up getting an -EIO error when trying to read
a node or a leaf, since read_extent_buffer_pages() returns -EIO if an
extent buffer does not have EXTENT_BUFFER_UPTODATE set and has the
EXTENT_BUFFER_WRITE_ERR bit set. Getting that -EIO means that we return
immediately as we can not iterate over the entire tree.

In that case we never update the reserved space for an extent buffer in
the respective block group and space_info object.

When this happens we get the following traces when unmounting the fs:

[174957.284509] BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in cleanup_transaction:1913: errno=-5 IO failure
[174957.286497] BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in free_log_tree:3420: errno=-5 IO failure
[174957.399379] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[174957.402497] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3206883 at fs/btrfs/block-group.c:127 btrfs_put_block_group+0x77/0xb0 [btrfs]
[174957.407523] Modules linked in: btrfs overlay dm_zero (...)
[174957.424917] CPU: 2 PID: 3206883 Comm: umount Tainted: G        W         5.16.0-rc5-btrfs-next-109 #1
[174957.426689] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[174957.428716] RIP: 0010:btrfs_put_block_group+0x77/0xb0 [btrfs]
[174957.429717] Code: 21 48 8b bd (...)
[174957.432867] RSP: 0018:ffffb70d41cffdd0 EFLAGS: 00010206
[174957.433632] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff8b09c3848000 RCX: ffff8b0758edd1c8
[174957.434689] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffffc0b467e7 RDI: ffff8b0758edd000
[174957.436068] RBP: ffff8b0758edd000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[174957.437114] R10: 0000000000000246 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b09c3848148
[174957.438140] R13: ffff8b09c3848198 R14: ffff8b0758edd188 R15: dead000000000100
[174957.439317] FS:  00007f328fb82800(0000) GS:ffff8b0a2d200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[174957.440402] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[174957.441164] CR2: 00007fff13563e98 CR3: 0000000404f4e005 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
[174957.442117] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[174957.443076] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[174957.443948] Call Trace:
[174957.444264]  <TASK>
[174957.444538]  btrfs_free_block_groups+0x255/0x3c0 [btrfs]
[174957.445238]  close_ctree+0x301/0x357 [btrfs]
[174957.445803]  ? call_rcu+0x16c/0x290
[174957.446250]  generic_shutdown_super+0x74/0x120
[174957.446832]  kill_anon_super+0x14/0x30
[174957.447305]  btrfs_kill_super+0x12/0x20 [btrfs]
[174957.447890]  deactivate_locked_super+0x31/0xa0
[174957.448440]  cleanup_mnt+0x147/0x1c0
[174957.448888]  task_work_run+0x5c/0xa0
[174957.449336]  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1e5/0x1f0
[174957.449934]  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40
[174957.450512]  do_syscall_64+0x48/0xc0
[174957.450980]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[174957.451605] RIP: 0033:0x7f328fdc4a97
[174957.452059] Code: 03 0c 00 f7 (...)
[174957.454320] RSP: 002b:00007fff13564ec8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6
[174957.455262] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f328feea264 RCX: 00007f328fdc4a97
[174957.456131] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000
---truncated---

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48833?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-48833?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-48833 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48833 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48833 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-48833 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Jul 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-2022-48833 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-2022-48833/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48833/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48833
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48833
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48833

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