linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53846: f2fs: fix to do sanity check on direct node in truncate

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Message-ID: <2025120959-CVE-2023-53846-70c9@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  9 Dec 2025 10:31:30 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53846: f2fs: fix to do sanity check on direct node in truncate_dnode()

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

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

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

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on direct node in truncate_dnode()

syzbot reports below bug:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0x122a/0x14c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:574
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802a25c000 by task syz-executor148/5000

CPU: 1 PID: 5000 Comm: syz-executor148 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7-syzkaller-00041-ge660abd551f1 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3c0 mm/kasan/report.c:351
 print_report mm/kasan/report.c:462 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x11c/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:572
 f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0x122a/0x14c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:574
 truncate_dnode+0x229/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/node.c:944
 f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks+0x64b/0xde0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1154
 f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x4ac/0xf30 fs/f2fs/file.c:721
 f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x7b/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:749
 f2fs_truncate.part.0+0x4a5/0x630 fs/f2fs/file.c:799
 f2fs_truncate include/linux/fs.h:825 [inline]
 f2fs_setattr+0x1738/0x2090 fs/f2fs/file.c:1006
 notify_change+0xb2c/0x1180 fs/attr.c:483
 do_truncate+0x143/0x200 fs/open.c:66
 handle_truncate fs/namei.c:3295 [inline]
 do_open fs/namei.c:3640 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2083/0x2750 fs/namei.c:3791
 do_filp_open+0x1ba/0x410 fs/namei.c:3818
 do_sys_openat2+0x16d/0x4c0 fs/open.c:1356
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]
 __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1448 [inline]
 __se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1442 [inline]
 __x64_sys_creat+0xcd/0x120 fs/open.c:1442
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The root cause is, inodeA references inodeB via inodeB's ino, once inodeA
is truncated, it calls truncate_dnode() to truncate data blocks in inodeB's
node page, it traverse mapping data from node->i.i_addr[0] to
node->i.i_addr[ADDRS_PER_BLOCK() - 1], result in out-of-boundary access.

This patch fixes to add sanity check on dnode page in truncate_dnode(),
so that, it can help to avoid triggering such issue, and once it encounters
such issue, it will record newly introduced ERROR_INVALID_NODE_REFERENCE
error into superblock, later fsck can detect such issue and try repairing.

Also, it removes f2fs_truncate_data_blocks() for cleanup due to the
function has only one caller, and uses f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range()
instead.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53846 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.4.10 with commit af0f716ad3b039cab9d426da63a5ee6c88751185
	Fixed in 6.5 with commit a6ec83786ab9f13f25fb18166dee908845713a95

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-2023-53846
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/f2fs.h
	fs/f2fs/file.c
	fs/f2fs/node.c
	include/linux/f2fs_fs.h


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/af0f716ad3b039cab9d426da63a5ee6c88751185
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6ec83786ab9f13f25fb18166dee908845713a95