{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48920 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2022-48920 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48920 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-48920 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48920 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48920/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48920/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-48920","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48920/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-48920","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48920","GHSA-m65f-mmqm-4fq6","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-48920","UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48920"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A kernel warning triggered during Btrfs transaction commits with flushoncommit can lead to system instability or denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-667","name":"Improper Locking"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: get rid of warning on transaction commit when using flushoncommit\n\nWhen using the flushoncommit mount option, during almost every transaction\ncommit we trigger a warning from __writeback_inodes_sb_nr():\n\n  $ cat fs/fs-writeback.c:\n  (...)\n  static void __writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb, ...\n  {\n        (...)\n        WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(\u0026sb-\u003es_umount));\n        (...)\n  }\n  (...)\n\nThe trace produced in dmesg looks like the following:\n\n  [947.473890] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 930 at fs/fs-writeback.c:2610 __writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x7e/0xb3\n  [947.481623] Modules linked in: nfsd nls_cp437 cifs asn1_decoder cifs_arc4 fscache cifs_md4 ipmi_ssif\n  [947.489571] CPU: 5 PID: 930 Comm: btrfs-transacti Not tainted 95.16.3-srb-asrock-00001-g36437ad63879 #186\n  [947.497969] RIP: 0010:__writeback_inodes_sb_nr+0x7e/0xb3\n  [947.502097] Code: 24 10 4c 89 44 24 18 c6 (...)\n  [947.519760] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000777e10 EFLAGS: 00010246\n  [947.523818] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000963300 RCX: 0000000000000000\n  [947.529765] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000fa51 RDI: ffffc90000777e50\n  [947.535740] RBP: ffff888101628a90 R08: ffff888100955800 R09: ffff888100956000\n  [947.541701] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff888100963488\n  [947.547645] R13: ffff888100963000 R14: ffff888112fb7200 R15: ffff888100963460\n  [947.553621] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88841fd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n  [947.560537] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n  [947.565122] CR2: 0000000008be50c4 CR3: 000000000220c000 CR4: 00000000001006e0\n  [947.571072] Call Trace:\n  [947.572354]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  [947.573266]  btrfs_commit_transaction+0x1f1/0x998\n  [947.576785]  ? start_transaction+0x3ab/0x44e\n  [947.579867]  ? schedule_timeout+0x8a/0xdd\n  [947.582716]  transaction_kthread+0xe9/0x156\n  [947.585721]  ? btrfs_cleanup_transaction.isra.0+0x407/0x407\n  [947.590104]  kthread+0x131/0x139\n  [947.592168]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x32/0x32\n  [947.595174]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n  [947.597561]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n  [947.598553] ---[ end trace 644721052755541c ]---\n\nThis is because we started using writeback_inodes_sb() to flush delalloc\nwhen committing a transaction (when using -o flushoncommit), in order to\navoid deadlocks with filesystem freeze operations. This change was made\nby commit ce8ea7cc6eb313 (\"btrfs: don't call btrfs_start_delalloc_roots\nin flushoncommit\"). After that change we started producing that warning,\nand every now and then a user reports this since the warning happens too\noften, it spams dmesg/syslog, and a user is unsure if this reflects any\nproblem that might compromise the filesystem's reliability.\n\nWe can not just lock the sb-\u003es_umount semaphore before calling\nwriteback_inodes_sb(), because that would at least deadlock with\nfilesystem freezing, since at fs/super.c:freeze_super() sync_filesystem()\nis called while we are holding that semaphore in write mode, and that can\ntrigger a transaction commit, resulting in a deadlock. It would also\ntrigger the same type of deadlock in the unmount path. Possibly, it could\nalso introduce some other locking dependencies that lockdep would report.\n\nTo fix this call try_to_writeback_inodes_sb() instead of\nwriteback_inodes_sb(), because that will try to read lock sb-\u003es_umount\nand then will only call writeback_inodes_sb() if it was able to lock it.\nThis is fine because the cases where it can't read lock sb-\u003es_umount\nare during a filesystem unmount or during a filesystem freeze - in those\ncases sb-\u003es_umount is write locked and sync_filesystem() is called, which\ncalls writeback_inodes_sb(). In other words, in all cases where we can't\ntake a read lock on sb-\u003es_umount, writeback is already being triggered\nelsewhere.\n\nAn alternative would be to call btrfs_start_delalloc_roots() with a\nnumber of pages different from LONG_MAX, for example matching the number\nof delalloc bytes we currently have, in \n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"btrfs: get rid of warning on transaction commit when using flushoncommit","id":"CVE-2022-48920","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity","id":"CVE-2022-48921"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"cifs: fix double free race when mount fails in cifs_get_root()","id":"CVE-2022-48919"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-08-22","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A kernel warning triggered during Btrfs transaction commits with flushoncommit can lead to system instability or denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48920/"}