linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54151: f2fs: Fix system crash due to lack of free space in LFS

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Message-ID: <2025122426-CVE-2023-54151-854b@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:07:48 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54151: f2fs: Fix system crash due to lack of free space in LFS

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

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

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

f2fs: Fix system crash due to lack of free space in LFS

When f2fs tries to checkpoint during foreground gc in LFS mode, system
crash occurs due to lack of free space if the amount of dirty node and
dentry pages generated by data migration exceeds free space.
The reproduction sequence is as follows.

 - 20GiB capacity block device (null_blk)
 - format and mount with LFS mode
 - create a file and write 20,000MiB
 - 4k random write on full range of the file

 RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x48a/0x510 [f2fs]
 Code: 55 e7 f5 89 c0 48 0f af c3 48 8b 5d c0 48 c1 e8 20 83 c0 01 89 43 6c 48 83 c4 28 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b f0 41 80 4f 48 04 45 85 f6 0f 84 ba fd ff ff e9 ef fe ff ff
 RSP: 0018:ffff977bc397b218 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 00000000000027b9 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000000027c0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000027b9 RDI: ffff8c25ab4e74f8
 RBP: ffff977bc397b268 R08: 00000000000027b9 R09: ffff8c29e4a34b40
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff977bc397b0d8 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: ffff8c25b4dd81a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8c2f667f9000
 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c344ec80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000c00055d000 CR3: 0000000e30810003 CR4: 00000000003706e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 allocate_segment_by_default+0x9c/0x110 [f2fs]
 f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x243/0xa30 [f2fs]
 ? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xa0/0x150
 do_write_page+0x80/0x160 [f2fs]
 f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x32/0x50 [f2fs]
 __write_node_page+0x339/0x730 [f2fs]
 f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x5a6/0x780 [f2fs]
 block_operations+0x257/0x340 [f2fs]
 f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x102/0x1050 [f2fs]
 f2fs_gc+0x27c/0x630 [f2fs]
 ? folio_mark_dirty+0x36/0x70
 f2fs_balance_fs+0x16f/0x180 [f2fs]

This patch adds checking whether free sections are enough before checkpoint
during gc.

[Jaegeuk Kim: code clean-up]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54151 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.1.30 with commit f4631d295ae3fff9e240ab78dc17f4b83d14f7bc
	Fixed in 6.3.4 with commit ce71c61d661cfac3f097af928995abfcebd2b8c5
	Fixed in 6.4 with commit d11cef14f8146f3babd286c2cc8ca09c166295e2

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-2023-54151
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/gc.c
	fs/f2fs/gc.h
	fs/f2fs/segment.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/f4631d295ae3fff9e240ab78dc17f4b83d14f7bc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce71c61d661cfac3f097af928995abfcebd2b8c5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d11cef14f8146f3babd286c2cc8ca09c166295e2