linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-40054: f2fs: fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page

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Message-ID: <2025102815-CVE-2025-40054-c79b@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:48:31 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40054: f2fs: fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page_bio()

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

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

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

f2fs: fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page_bio()

As JY reported in bugzilla [1],

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
pc : [0xffffffe51d249484] f2fs_is_cp_guaranteed+0x70/0x98
lr : [0xffffffe51d24adbc] f2fs_merge_page_bio+0x520/0x6d4
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 6790 Comm: kworker/u16:3 Tainted: P    B   W  OE      6.12.30-android16-5-maybe-dirty-4k #1 5f7701c9cbf727d1eebe77c89bbbeb3371e895e5
Tainted: [P]=PROPRIETARY_MODULE, [B]=BAD_PAGE, [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-254:49)
Call trace:
 f2fs_is_cp_guaranteed+0x70/0x98
 f2fs_inplace_write_data+0x174/0x2f4
 f2fs_do_write_data_page+0x214/0x81c
 f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x28c/0x764
 f2fs_write_data_pages+0x78c/0xce4
 do_writepages+0xe8/0x2fc
 __writeback_single_inode+0x4c/0x4b4
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x314/0x540
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0xa4/0xf4
 wb_writeback+0x160/0x448
 wb_workfn+0x2f0/0x5dc
 process_scheduled_works+0x1c8/0x458
 worker_thread+0x334/0x3f0
 kthread+0x118/0x1ac
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220575

The panic was caused by UAF issue w/ below race condition:

kworker
- writepages
 - f2fs_write_cache_pages
  - f2fs_write_single_data_page
   - f2fs_do_write_data_page
    - f2fs_inplace_write_data
     - f2fs_merge_page_bio
      - add_inu_page
      : cache page #1 into bio & cache bio in
        io->bio_list
  - f2fs_write_single_data_page
   - f2fs_do_write_data_page
    - f2fs_inplace_write_data
     - f2fs_merge_page_bio
      - add_inu_page
      : cache page #2 into bio which is linked
        in io->bio_list
						write
						- f2fs_write_begin
						: write page #1
						 - f2fs_folio_wait_writeback
						  - f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write
						   - f2fs_submit_write_bio
						   : submit bio which inclues page #1 and #2

						software IRQ
						- f2fs_write_end_io
						 - fscrypt_free_bounce_page
						 : freed bounced page which belongs to page #2
      - inc_page_count( , WB_DATA_TYPE(data_folio), false)
      : data_folio points to fio->encrypted_page
        the bounced page can be freed before
        accessing it in f2fs_is_cp_guarantee()

It can reproduce w/ below testcase:
Run below script in shell #1:
for ((i=1;i>0;i++)) do xfs_io -f /mnt/f2fs/enc/file \
-c "pwrite 0 32k" -c "fdatasync"

Run below script in shell #2:
for ((i=1;i>0;i++)) do xfs_io -f /mnt/f2fs/enc/file \
-c "pwrite 0 32k" -c "fdatasync"

So, in f2fs_merge_page_bio(), let's avoid using fio->encrypted_page after
commit page into internal ipu cache.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40054 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.5 with commit 0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e and fixed in 6.17.3 with commit 01118321e0c8a5f3ece57d0d377bfc92d83cd210
	Issue introduced in 5.5 with commit 0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e and fixed in 6.18-rc1 with commit edf7e9040fc52c922db947f9c6c36f07377c52ea

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-2025-40054
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/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/01118321e0c8a5f3ece57d0d377bfc92d83cd210
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edf7e9040fc52c922db947f9c6c36f07377c52ea