CVE-2022-49255 f2fs: fix missing free nid in f2fs_handle_failed_inode

Medium 5.5 Published 26 Feb 2025 Updated 11 May 2026

A missing free node ID in the F2FS filesystem can cause a kernel bug and system crash during unmount operations.

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

What is CVE-2022-49255?

CVE-2022-49255 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. 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:

f2fs: fix missing free nid in f2fs_handle_failed_inode

This patch fixes xfstests/generic/475 failure.

[ 293.680694] F2FS-fs (dm-1): May loss orphan inode, run fsck to fix. [ 293.685358] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-1, logical block 8388592, async page read [ 293.691527] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-1, logical block 8388592, async page read [ 293.691764] sh (7615): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.691819] sh (7616): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.694017] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-1, logical block 1, async page read [ 293.695659] sh (7618): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.696979] sh (7617): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.700290] sh (7623): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.708621] sh (7626): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.711386] sh (7628): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.711825] sh (7627): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.716738] sh (7630): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.719613] sh (7632): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.720971] sh (7633): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.727741] sh (7634): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.730783] sh (7636): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.732681] sh (7635): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.732988] sh (7637): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.738836] sh (7639): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.740568] sh (7641): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.743053] sh (7640): drop_caches: 3 [ 293.821889] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 293.824654] kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/node.c:3334! [ 293.826226] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 293.828713] CPU: 0 PID: 7653 Comm: umount Tainted: G OE 5.17.0-rc1-custom #1 [ 293.830946] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 [ 293.832526] RIP: 0010:f2fs_destroy_node_manager+0x33f/0x350 [f2fs] [ 293.833905] Code: e8 d6 3d f9 f9 48 8b 45 d0 65 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00 00 75 1a 48 81 c4 28 03 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 0f 0b [ 293.837783] RSP: 0018:ffffb04ec31e7a20 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 293.839062] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9df947db2eb8 RCX: 0000000080aa0072 [ 293.840666] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffe86c0432a140 RDI: ffffffffc0b72a21 [ 293.842261] RBP: ffffb04ec31e7d70 R08: ffff9df94ca85780 R09: 0000000080aa0072 [ 293.843909] R10: ffff9df94ca85700 R11: ffff9df94e1ccf58 R12: ffff9df947db2e00 [ 293.845594] R13: ffff9df947db2ed0 R14: ffff9df947db2eb8 R15: ffff9df947db2eb8 [ 293.847855] FS: 00007f5a97379800(0000) GS:ffff9dfa77c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 293.850647] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 293.852940] CR2: 00007f5a97528730 CR3: 000000010bc76005 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 [ 293.854680] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 293.856423] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 293.858380] Call Trace: [ 293.859302] <TASK> [ 293.860311] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x1c/0x170 [ 293.861800] ? ttwu_do_activate+0x6d/0xb0 [ 293.863057] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x29/0x40 [ 293.864411] ? try_to_wake_up+0x9d/0x5e0 [ 293.865618] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20 [ 293.866934] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20 [ 293.868223] ? free_unref_page+0xbf/0x120 [ 293.869470] ? __free_slab+0xcb/0x1c0 [ 293.870614] ? preempt_count_add+0x7a/0xc0 [ 293.871811] ? __slab_free+0xa0/0x2d0 [ 293.872918] ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x8a/0xc0 [ 293.874186] ? __slab_free+0xa0/0x2d0 [ 293.875305] ? free_inode_nonrcu+0x20/0x20 [ 293.876466] ? free_inode_nonrcu+0x20/0x20 [ 293.877650] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20 [ 293.878949] ? call_rcu+0x11a/0x240 [ 293.880060] ? f2fs_destroy_stats+0x59/0x60 [f2fs] [ 293.881437] ? kfree+0x1fe/0x230 [ 293.882674] f2fs_put_super+0x160/0x390 [f2fs] [ 293.883978] generic_shutdown_super+0x7a/0x120 [ 293.885274] kill_block_super+0x27/0x50 [ 293.886496] kill_f2fs_super+0x7f/0x100 [f2fs] [ 293.887806] deactivate_locked_super+0x35/0xa0 [ 293.889271] deactivate_super+0x40/0x50 [ 293.890513] cleanup_mnt+0x139/0x190 [ 293.891689] __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20 [ 293.892850] task_work_run+0x64/0xa0 [ 293.894035] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1b7/ ---truncated---

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49255?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49255?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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Is CVE-2022-49255 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49255 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49255, GHSA-gh73-qf3c-4wf8, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49255.