# CVE-2022-49360: f2fs: fix to do sanity check on total_data_blocks

> A missing sanity check in the f2fs filesystem allows a local attacker to trigger a kernel panic via inconsistent block counts, causing a 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:** 26 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49360, GHSA-rg44-34gh-w665, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49360

## What is CVE-2022-49360?

CVE-2022-49360 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 to do sanity check on total_data_blocks

As Yanming reported in bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215916

The kernel message is shown below:

kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2560!
Call Trace:
 allocate_segment_by_default+0x228/0x440
 f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x13d1/0x31f0
 do_write_page+0x18d/0x710
 f2fs_outplace_write_data+0x151/0x250
 f2fs_do_write_data_page+0xef9/0x1980
 move_data_page+0x6af/0xbc0
 do_garbage_collect+0x312f/0x46f0
 f2fs_gc+0x6b0/0x3bc0
 f2fs_balance_fs+0x921/0x2260
 f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x16be/0x2370
 f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x428/0xd00
 f2fs_write_data_pages+0x96e/0xd50
 do_writepages+0x168/0x550
 __writeback_single_inode+0x9f/0x870
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x47d/0xb20
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0xb2/0x200
 wb_writeback+0x4bd/0x660
 wb_workfn+0x5f3/0xab0
 process_one_work+0x79f/0x13e0
 worker_thread+0x89/0xf60
 kthread+0x26a/0x300
 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0xe8d/0x15f0

The root cause is: ckpt.valid_block_count is inconsistent with SIT table,
stat info indicates filesystem has free blocks, but SIT table indicates
filesystem has no free segment.

So that during garbage colloection, it triggers panic when LFS allocator
fails to find free segment.

This patch tries to fix this issue by checking consistency in between
ckpt.valid_block_count and block accounted from SIT.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49360?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49360?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49360 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49360 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49360 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49360 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49360 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-2022-49360/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49360/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49360
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49360
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49360

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