Vulnerability CVE-2022-48712
Published: 2024-06-20

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.

 References:
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
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