High 7.8Published Dec 24, 2025

CVE-2022-50755udf: Avoid double brelse() in udf_rename()

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 9:00 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Avoid double brelse() in udf_rename() syzbot reported a warning like below [1]: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 7301 at fs/buffer.c:1145 __brelse+0x67/0xa0 ... Call Trace: <TASK> invalidate_bh_lru+0x99/0x150 smp_call_function_many_cond+0xe2a/0x10c0 ? generic_remap_file_range_prep+0x50/0x50 ? __brelse+0xa0/0xa0 ? __mutex_lock+0x21c/0x12d0 ? smp_call_on_cpu+0x250/0x250 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0xb/0x60 ? lock_release+0x587/0x810 ? __brelse+0xa0/0xa0 ? generic_remap_file_range_prep+0x50/0x50 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3c/0x80 blkdev_flush_mapping+0x13a/0x2f0 blkdev_put_whole+0xd3/0xf0 blkdev_put+0x222/0x760 deactivate_locked_super+0x96/0x160 deactivate_super+0xda/0x100 cleanup_mnt+0x222/0x3d0 task_work_run+0x149/0x240 ? task_work_cancel+0x30/0x30 do_exit+0xb29/0x2a40 ? reacquire_held_locks+0x4a0/0x4a0 ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x12a/0x2b0 ? mm_update_next_owner+0x7c0/0x7c0 ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90 ? zap_other_threads+0x234/0x2d0 do_group_exit+0xd0/0x2a0 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3a/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd The cause of the issue is that brelse() is called on both ofibh.sbh and ofibh.ebh by udf_find_entry() when it returns NULL. However, brelse() is called by udf_rename(), too. So, b_count on buffer_head becomes unbalanced. This patch fixes the issue by not calling brelse() by udf_rename() when udf_find_entry() returns NULL.

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Oct 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 builds before 78eba2778ae10fb2a9d450e14d26eb6f6bf1f906; 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 builds before 9d2cad69547abea961fa80426d600b861de1952b; from 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 before d6da7ec0f94f5208c848e0e94b70f54a0bd9c587; 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 builds before 156d440dea97deada629bb51cb17887abd862605; 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 builds before 40dba68d418237b1ae2beaa06d46a94dd946278e; from 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 before e7a6a53c871460727be09f4414ccb29fb8697526; 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 builds before 4fca09045509f5bde8fc28e68fbca38cb4bdcf2e; 231473f6ddcef9c01993e0bfe36acc6f8e425c31 builds before 090bf49833c51da297ec74f98ad2bf44daea9311; and 1 more ranges	CNA record

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78eba2778ae10fb2a9d450e14d26eb6f6bf1f906
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d2cad69547abea961fa80426d600b861de1952b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6da7ec0f94f5208c848e0e94b70f54a0bd9c587
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/156d440dea97deada629bb51cb17887abd862605
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40dba68d418237b1ae2beaa06d46a94dd946278e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7a6a53c871460727be09f4414ccb29fb8697526
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fca09045509f5bde8fc28e68fbca38cb4bdcf2e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/090bf49833c51da297ec74f98ad2bf44daea9311
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c791730f2554a9ebb8f18df9368dc27d4ebc38c2

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