Message-ID: <2025041630-CVE-2025-22127-81a6@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:13:38 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-22127: f2fs: fix potential deadloop in prepare_compress_overwrite()

Description
===========

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

f2fs: fix potential deadloop in prepare_compress_overwrite()

Jan Prusakowski reported a kernel hang issue as below:

When running xfstests on linux-next kernel (6.14.0-rc3, 6.12) I
encountered a problem in generic/475 test where fsstress process
gets blocked in __f2fs_write_data_pages() and the test hangs.
The options I used are:

MKFS_OPTIONS  -- -O compression -O extra_attr -O project_quota -O quota /dev/vdc
MOUNT_OPTIONS -- -o acl,user_xattr -o discard,compress_extension=* /dev/vdc /vdc

INFO: task kworker/u8:0:11 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
      Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-xfstests-lockdep #1
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:kworker/u8:0    state:D stack:0     pid:11    tgid:11    ppid:2      task_flags:0x4208160 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-253:0)
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __schedule+0x309/0x8e0
 schedule+0x3a/0x100
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30
 __mutex_lock+0x59a/0xdb0
 __f2fs_write_data_pages+0x3ac/0x400
 do_writepages+0xe8/0x290
 __writeback_single_inode+0x5c/0x360
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x22f/0x570
 wb_writeback+0xb0/0x410
 wb_do_writeback+0x47/0x2f0
 wb_workfn+0x5a/0x1c0
 process_one_work+0x223/0x5b0
 worker_thread+0x1d5/0x3c0
 kthread+0xfd/0x230
 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
 </TASK>

The root cause is: once generic/475 starts toload error table to dm
device, f2fs_prepare_compress_overwrite() will loop reading compressed
cluster pages due to IO error, meanwhile it has held .writepages lock,
it can block all other writeback tasks.

Let's fix this issue w/ below changes:
- add f2fs_handle_page_eio() in prepare_compress_overwrite() to
detect IO error.
- detect cp_error earler in f2fs_read_multi_pages().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-22127 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 and fixed in 6.14.2 with commit 7215cf8ef54bdc9082dffac4662416d54961e258
	Issue introduced in 5.6 with commit 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 and fixed in 6.15-rc1 with commit 3147ee567dd9004a49826ddeaf0a4b12865d4409

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-22127
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/f2fs/compress.c
	fs/f2fs/data.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7215cf8ef54bdc9082dffac4662416d54961e258
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3147ee567dd9004a49826ddeaf0a4b12865d4409

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