{"cve":"CVE-2022-50379","nvd":{"published":"2025-09-18T14:15:36.630","modified":"2026-06-17T05:23:22.983","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix race between quota enable and quota rescan ioctl\n\nWhen enabling quotas, at btrfs_quota_enable(), after committing the\ntransaction, we change fs_info->quota_root to point to the quota root we\ncreated and set BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED at fs_info->flags. Then we try\nto start the qgroup rescan worker, first by initializing it with a call\nto qgroup_rescan_init() - however if that fails we end up freeing the\nquota root but we leave fs_info->quota_root still pointing to it, this\ncan later result in a use-after-free somewhere else.\n\nWe have previously set the flags BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED and\nBTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_ON, so we can only fail with -EINPROGRESS at\nbtrfs_quota_enable(), which is possible if someone already called the\nquota rescan ioctl, and therefore started the rescan worker.\n\nSo fix this by ignoring an -EINPROGRESS and asserting we can't get any\nother error.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":4.7},"cwes":["CWE-362"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0efd9dfc00d677a1d0929319a6103cb2dfc41c22","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26b7c0ac49a3eea15559c9d84863736a6d1164b4","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/331cd9461412e103d07595a10289de90004ac890","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b5ffe86332af95f0f52be0a63d4da7c2b37b55","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b996a3014ef014af8f97b60c35f5289210a4720"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:10:08.713834912+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-50379","score":0.00111,"percentile":0.01306,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}