linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53447: f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs

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Message-ID: <2025091800-CVE-2023-53447-e0ee@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:04:38 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53447: f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()

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

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

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

f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()

syzbot reports a bug as below:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000009: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x69/0x2000 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4942
Call Trace:
 lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5691
 __raw_write_lock include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h:209 [inline]
 _raw_write_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:300
 __drop_extent_tree+0x3ac/0x660 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1100
 f2fs_drop_extent_tree+0x17/0x30 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1116
 f2fs_insert_range+0x2d5/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1664
 f2fs_fallocate+0x4e4/0x6d0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1838
 vfs_fallocate+0x54b/0x6b0 fs/open.c:324
 ksys_fallocate fs/open.c:347 [inline]
 __do_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:355 [inline]
 __se_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:353 [inline]
 __x64_sys_fallocate+0xbd/0x100 fs/open.c:353
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The root cause is race condition as below:
- since it tries to remount rw filesystem, so that do_remount won't
call sb_prepare_remount_readonly to block fallocate, there may be race
condition in between remount and fallocate.
- in f2fs_remount(), default_options() will reset mount option to default
one, and then update it based on result of parse_options(), so there is
a hole which race condition can happen.

Thread A			Thread B
- f2fs_fill_super
 - parse_options
  - clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)

- f2fs_remount
 - default_options
  - set_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)
				- f2fs_fallocate
				 - f2fs_insert_range
				  - f2fs_drop_extent_tree
				   - __drop_extent_tree
				    - __may_extent_tree
				     - test_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE) return true
				    - write_lock(&et->lock) access NULL pointer
 - parse_options
  - clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53447 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.4.5 with commit 115557cc226a927924f2d7d1980ccbf6e3b3bb36
	Fixed in 6.5 with commit 458c15dfbce62c35fefd9ca637b20a051309c9f1

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-2023-53447
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/super.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/115557cc226a927924f2d7d1980ccbf6e3b3bb36
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/458c15dfbce62c35fefd9ca637b20a051309c9f1