CVE-2022-48712 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix error handling in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode()

Current code does not fully takes care of krealloc() error case which could lead to silent memory corruption or a kernel bug. This patch fixes that.

Also it cleans up some duplicated error handling logic from various functions in fast_commit.c file.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62e46e0ffc02daa8fcfc02f7a932cc8a19601b19 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b6762ecdf3cf12113772427c904aa3c420a1802 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14aa3f49c7fc6424763f4323bfbc3a807b0727dc https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdce59a1549190b66f8e3fe465c2b2f714b98a94