Message-ID: <2025081912-CVE-2025-38577-f225@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:18:23 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38577: f2fs: fix to avoid panic in f2fs_evict_inode

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

f2fs: fix to avoid panic in f2fs_evict_inode

As syzbot [1] reported as below:

R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffe17473450
R13: 00007f28b1c10854 R14: 000000000000dae5 R15: 00007ffe17474520
 </TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:62
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88812d962278 by task syz-executor/564

CPU: 1 PID: 564 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G        W          6.1.129-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xee/0x158 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x71/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:316
 print_report+0x4a/0x60 mm/kasan/report.c:427
 kasan_report+0x122/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:531
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:351
 __list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:62
 __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:134 [inline]
 list_del_init include/linux/list.h:206 [inline]
 f2fs_inode_synced+0xf7/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:1531
 f2fs_update_inode+0x74/0x1c40 fs/f2fs/inode.c:585
 f2fs_update_inode_page+0x137/0x170 fs/f2fs/inode.c:703
 f2fs_write_inode+0x4ec/0x770 fs/f2fs/inode.c:731
 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1460 [inline]
 __writeback_single_inode+0x4a0/0xab0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1677
 writeback_single_inode+0x221/0x8b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1733
 sync_inode_metadata+0xb6/0x110 fs/fs-writeback.c:2789
 f2fs_sync_inode_meta+0x16d/0x2a0 fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:1159
 block_operations fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:1269 [inline]
 f2fs_write_checkpoint+0xca3/0x2100 fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c:1658
 kill_f2fs_super+0x231/0x390 fs/f2fs/super.c:4668
 deactivate_locked_super+0x98/0x100 fs/super.c:332
 deactivate_super+0xaf/0xe0 fs/super.c:363
 cleanup_mnt+0x45f/0x4e0 fs/namespace.c:1186
 __cleanup_mnt+0x19/0x20 fs/namespace.c:1193
 task_work_run+0x1c6/0x230 kernel/task_work.c:203
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:39 [inline]
 do_exit+0x9fb/0x2410 kernel/exit.c:871
 do_group_exit+0x210/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1021
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1032 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1030 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1030
 x64_sys_call+0x7b4/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f28b1b8e169
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f28b1b8e13f.
RSP: 002b:00007ffe174710a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f28b1c10879 RCX: 00007f28b1b8e169
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 00007ffe1746ee47 R09: 00007ffe17472360
R10: 0000000000000009 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffe17472360
R13: 00007f28b1c10854 R14: 000000000000dae5 R15: 00007ffe17474520
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 569:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:505
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x72/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:328
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4f/0x2c0 mm/slab.h:737
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3398 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3406 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3413 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x104/0x220 mm/slub.c:3429
 alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:3245 [inline]
 f2fs_alloc_inode+0x2d/0x340 fs/f2fs/super.c:1419
 alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
 iget_locked+0x186/0x880 fs/inode.c:1373
 f2fs_iget+0x55/0x4c60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:483
 f2fs_lookup+0x366/0xab0 fs/f2fs/namei.c:487
 __lookup_slow+0x2a3/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:1690
 lookup_slow+0x57/0x70 fs/namei.c:1707
 walk_component+0x2e6/0x410 fs/namei.c:1998
 lookup_last fs/namei.c:2455 [inline]
 path_lookupat+0x180/0x490 fs/namei.c:2479
 filename_lookup+0x1f0/0x500 fs/namei.c:2508
 vfs_statx+0x10b/0x660 fs/stat.c:229
 vfs_fstatat fs/stat.c:267 [inline]
 vfs_lstat include/linux/fs.h:3424 [inline]
 __do_sys_newlstat fs/stat.c:423 [inline]
 __se_sys_newlstat+0xd5/0x350 fs/stat.c:417
 __x64_sys_newlstat+0x5b/0x70 fs/stat.c:417
 x64_sys_call+0x393/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:7
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 13:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_free_info+0x31/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x132/0x180 mm/kasan/common.c:236
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:244
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1724 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc2/0x190 mm/slub.c:1750
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3661 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x12d/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:3683
 f2fs_free_inode+0x24/0x30 fs/f2fs/super.c:1562
 i_callback+0x4c/0x70 fs/inode.c:250
 rcu_do_batch+0x503/0xb80 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 rcu_core+0x5a2/0xe70 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2557
 rcu_core_si+0x9/0x10 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2574
 handle_softirqs+0x178/0x500 kernel/softirq.c:578
 run_ksoftirqd+0x28/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:945
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x45a/0x8c0 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x270/0x310 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb6/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:486
 kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc+0xb/0x10 mm/kasan/generic.c:496
 call_rcu+0xd4/0xf70 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2845
 destroy_inode fs/inode.c:316 [inline]
 evict+0x7da/0x870 fs/inode.c:720
 iput_final fs/inode.c:1834 [inline]
 iput+0x62b/0x830 fs/inode.c:1860
 do_unlinkat+0x356/0x540 fs/namei.c:4397
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4438 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4436 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x49/0x50 fs/namei.c:4436
 x64_sys_call+0x958/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:88
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88812d961f20
 which belongs to the cache f2fs_inode_cache of size 1200
The buggy address is located 856 bytes inside of
 1200-byte region [ffff88812d961f20, ffff88812d9623d0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0004b65800 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12d960
head:ffffea0004b65800 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff88810a94c500
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000800c000c 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0x1d2050(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_RECLAIMABLE), pid 569, tgid 568 (syz.2.16), ts 55943246141, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1d0/0x1f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2532
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2539 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2e63/0x2ef0 mm/page_alloc.c:4328
 __alloc_pages+0x235/0x4b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5605
 alloc_slab_page include/linux/gfp.h:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1939 [inline]
 new_slab+0xec/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1992
 ___slab_alloc+0x6f6/0xb50 mm/slub.c:3180
 __slab_alloc+0x5e/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3279
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3364 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3406 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3413 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x13f/0x220 mm/slub.c:3429
 alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:3245 [inline]
 f2fs_alloc_inode+0x2d/0x340 fs/f2fs/super.c:1419
 alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
 iget_locked+0x186/0x880 fs/inode.c:1373
 f2fs_iget+0x55/0x4c60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:483
 f2fs_fill_super+0x3ad7/0x6bb0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4293
 mount_bdev+0x2ae/0x3e0 fs/super.c:1443
 f2fs_mount+0x34/0x40 fs/f2fs/super.c:4642
 legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x190 fs/fs_context.c:632
 vfs_get_tree+0x89/0x260 fs/super.c:1573
 do_new_mount+0x25a/0xa20 fs/namespace.c:3056
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88812d962100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88812d962180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88812d962200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                                ^
 ffff88812d962280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88812d962300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=13448368580000

This bug can be reproduced w/ the reproducer [2], once we enable
CONFIG_F2FS_CHECK_FS config, the reproducer will trigger panic as below,
so the direct reason of this bug is the same as the one below patch [3]
fixed.

kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/inode.c:857!
RIP: 0010:f2fs_evict_inode+0x1204/0x1a20
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 evict+0x32a/0x7a0
 do_unlinkat+0x37b/0x5b0
 __x64_sys_unlink+0xad/0x100
 do_syscall_64+0x5a/0xb0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
RIP: 0010:f2fs_evict_inode+0x1204/0x1a20

[2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=17495ccc580000
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/20250702120321.1080759-1-chao@kernel.org

Tracepoints before panic:

f2fs_unlink_enter: dev = (7,0), dir ino = 3, i_size = 4096, i_blocks = 8, name = file1
f2fs_unlink_exit: dev = (7,0), ino = 7, ret = 0
f2fs_evict_inode: dev = (7,0), ino = 7, pino = 3, i_mode = 0x81ed, i_size = 10, i_nlink = 0, i_blocks = 0, i_advise = 0x0
f2fs_truncate_node: dev = (7,0), ino = 7, nid = 8, block_address = 0x3c05

f2fs_unlink_enter: dev = (7,0), dir ino = 3, i_size = 4096, i_blocks = 8, name = file3
f2fs_unlink_exit: dev = (7,0), ino = 8, ret = 0
f2fs_evict_inode: dev = (7,0), ino = 8, pino = 3, i_mode = 0x81ed, i_size = 9000, i_nlink = 0, i_blocks = 24, i_advise = 0x4
f2fs_truncate: dev = (7,0), ino = 8, pino = 3, i_mode = 0x81ed, i_size = 0, i_nlink = 0, i_blocks = 24, i_advise = 0x4
f2fs_truncate_blocks_enter: dev = (7,0), ino = 8, i_size = 0, i_blocks = 24, start file offset = 0
f2fs_truncate_blocks_exit: dev = (7,0), ino = 8, ret = -2

The root cause is: in the fuzzed image, dnode #8 belongs to inode #7,
after inode #7 eviction, dnode #8 was dropped.

However there is dirent that has ino #8, so, once we unlink file3, in
f2fs_evict_inode(), both f2fs_truncate() and f2fs_update_inode_page()
will fail due to we can not load node #8, result in we missed to call
f2fs_inode_synced() to clear inode dirty status.

Let's fix this by calling f2fs_inode_synced() in error path of
f2fs_evict_inode().

PS: As I verified, the reproducer [2] can trigger this bug in v6.1.129,
but it failed in v6.16-rc4, this is because the testcase will stop due to
other corruption has been detected by f2fs:

F2FS-fs (loop0): inconsistent node block, node_type:2, nid:8, node_footer[nid:8,ino:8,ofs:0,cpver:5013063228981249506,blkaddr:15366]
F2FS-fs (loop0): f2fs_lookup: inode (ino=9) has zero i_nlink

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38577 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 0f18b462b2e5aff64b8638e8a47284b907351ef3 and fixed in 6.1.148 with commit 4732ca17c17f5062426cfa982f43593e6b81963b
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 0f18b462b2e5aff64b8638e8a47284b907351ef3 and fixed in 6.6.102 with commit 880ef748e78a1eb7df2d8e11a9ef21e98bcaabe5
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 0f18b462b2e5aff64b8638e8a47284b907351ef3 and fixed in 6.12.42 with commit 97df495d754116c8c28ac6a4112f831727bde887
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 0f18b462b2e5aff64b8638e8a47284b907351ef3 and fixed in 6.15.10 with commit 9bbfe83924946552c4c513099c0e8c83af76311a
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 0f18b462b2e5aff64b8638e8a47284b907351ef3 and fixed in 6.16.1 with commit 42f9ea16aea8b49febaa87950a006a1792209f38
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 0f18b462b2e5aff64b8638e8a47284b907351ef3 and fixed in 6.17-rc1 with commit a509a55f8eecc8970b3980c6f06886bbff0e2f68

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-2025-38577
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/inode.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/4732ca17c17f5062426cfa982f43593e6b81963b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/880ef748e78a1eb7df2d8e11a9ef21e98bcaabe5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97df495d754116c8c28ac6a4112f831727bde887
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bbfe83924946552c4c513099c0e8c83af76311a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42f9ea16aea8b49febaa87950a006a1792209f38
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a509a55f8eecc8970b3980c6f06886bbff0e2f68

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