Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-49742
CVE-2022-49742
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: initialize locks earlier in f2fs_fill_super()
syzbot is reporting lockdep warning at f2fs_handle_error() [1], for spin_lock(&sbi->error_lock) is called before spin_lock_init() is called. For safe locking in error handling, move initialization of locks (and obvious structures) in f2fs_fill_super() to immediately after memory allocation.
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