CVE-2022-49914: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at resolve_indirect_refs() During backref walking, at resolve_indirect_refs(), if we get an error we jump to the 'out' label and call ulist_free() on the 'parents' ulist, which frees all the elements in the ulist - however that does not free any inode lists that may be attached to elements, through the 'aux' field of a ulist node, so we end up leaking lists if we have any attached to the unodes. Fix this by calling free_leaf_list() instead of ulist_free() when we exit from resolve_indirect_refs(). The static function free_leaf_list() is moved up for this to be possible and it's slightly simplified by removing unnecessary code.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.5, before 4.14.299 (fixed in 4.14.299); from 4.15, before 4.19.265 (fixed in 4.19.265); from 4.20, before 5.4.224 (fixed in 5.4.224); from 5.5, before 5.10.154 (fixed in 5.10.154); from 5.11, before 5.15.78 (fixed in 5.15.78); from 5.16, before 6.0.8 (fixed in 6.0.8); …

Published 2025-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.