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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Jan 19, 2026

blk-throttle: Set BIO_THROTTLED when bio has been throttled

CVE-2022-49465

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-throttle: Set BIO_THROTTLED when bio has been throttled

1.In current process, all bio will set the BIO_THROTTLED flag after __blk_throtl_bio().

2.If bio needs to be throttled, it will start the timer and stop submit bio directly. Bio will submit in blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn() when the timer expires.But in the current process, if bio is throttled. The BIO_THROTTLED will be set to bio after timer start. If the bio has been completed, it may cause use-after-free blow.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in blk_throtl_bio+0x12f0/0x2c70 Read of size 2 at addr ffff88801b8902d4 by task fio/26380

dump_stack+0x9b/0xce print_address_description.constprop.6+0x3e/0x60 kasan_report.cold.9+0x22/0x3a blk_throtl_bio+0x12f0/0x2c70 submit_bio_checks+0x701/0x1550 submit_bio_noacct+0x83/0xc80 submit_bio+0xa7/0x330 mpage_readahead+0x380/0x500 read_pages+0x1c1/0xbf0 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x471/0x6f0 do_page_cache_ra+0xda/0x110 ondemand_readahead+0x442/0xae0 page_cache_async_ra+0x210/0x300 generic_file_buffered_read+0x4d9/0x2130 generic_file_read_iter+0x315/0x490 blkdev_read_iter+0x113/0x1b0 aio_read+0x2ad/0x450 io_submit_one+0xc8e/0x1d60 __se_sys_io_submit+0x125/0x350 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x40 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Allocated by task 26380: kasan_save_stack+0x19/0x40 __kasan_kmalloc.constprop.2+0xc1/0xd0 kmem_cache_alloc+0x146/0x440 mempool_alloc+0x125/0x2f0 bio_alloc_bioset+0x353/0x590 mpage_alloc+0x3b/0x240 do_mpage_readpage+0xddf/0x1ef0 mpage_readahead+0x264/0x500 read_pages+0x1c1/0xbf0 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x471/0x6f0 do_page_cache_ra+0xda/0x110 ondemand_readahead+0x442/0xae0 page_cache_async_ra+0x210/0x300 generic_file_buffered_read+0x4d9/0x2130 generic_file_read_iter+0x315/0x490 blkdev_read_iter+0x113/0x1b0 aio_read+0x2ad/0x450 io_submit_one+0xc8e/0x1d60 __se_sys_io_submit+0x125/0x350 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x40 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Freed by task 0: kasan_save_stack+0x19/0x40 kasan_set_track+0x1c/0x30 kasan_set_free_info+0x1b/0x30 __kasan_slab_free+0x111/0x160 kmem_cache_free+0x94/0x460 mempool_free+0xd6/0x320 bio_free+0xe0/0x130 bio_put+0xab/0xe0 bio_endio+0x3a6/0x5d0 blk_update_request+0x590/0x1370 scsi_end_request+0x7d/0x400 scsi_io_completion+0x1aa/0xe50 scsi_softirq_done+0x11b/0x240 blk_mq_complete_request+0xd4/0x120 scsi_mq_done+0xf0/0x200 virtscsi_vq_done+0xbc/0x150 vring_interrupt+0x179/0x390 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0xf7/0x490 handle_irq_event_percpu+0x7b/0x160 handle_irq_event+0xcc/0x170 handle_edge_irq+0x215/0xb20 common_interrupt+0x60/0x120 asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40

Fix this by move BIO_THROTTLED set into the queue_lock.

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