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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated Aug 15, 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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Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy3 versions
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    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 3.8
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <6.1.11
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.11

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