CVE-2022-49738

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on i_extra_isize in is_alive()

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Updated
Aug 15, 2026
Reserved
Mar 27, 2025

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Description

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

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on i_extra_isize in is_alive()

syzbot found a f2fs bug:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2891 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in is_alive fs/f2fs/gc.c:1117 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in gc_data_segment fs/f2fs/gc.c:1520 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in do_garbage_collect+0x386a/0x3df0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1734 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888076557568 by task kworker/u4:3/52

CPU: 1 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-syzkaller-00362-gfef7fd48922d #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0) Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline] print_report+0x15e/0x45d mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasan_report+0xbb/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:495 data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2891 [inline] is_alive fs/f2fs/gc.c:1117 [inline] gc_data_segment fs/f2fs/gc.c:1520 [inline] do_garbage_collect+0x386a/0x3df0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1734 f2fs_gc+0x88c/0x20a0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1831 f2fs_balance_fs+0x544/0x6b0 fs/f2fs/segment.c:410 f2fs_write_inode+0x57e/0xe20 fs/f2fs/inode.c:753 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1440 [inline] __writeback_single_inode+0xcfc/0x1440 fs/fs-writeback.c:1652 writeback_sb_inodes+0x54d/0xf90 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870 wb_writeback+0x2c5/0xd70 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline] wb_workfn+0x2dc/0x12f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227 process_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710 kernel/workqueue.c:2289 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436 kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306

The root cause is that we forgot to do sanity check on .i_extra_isize in below path, result in accessing invalid address later, fix it. - gc_data_segment - is_alive - data_blkaddr - offset_in_addr

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7a2af766af15887754f7f7a0869b4603b390876a to before e5142a4935c1f15841d06047b8130078fc4d7b8fAffected
  • 7a2af766af15887754f7f7a0869b4603b390876a to before 914e38f02a490dafd980ff0f39cccedc074deb29Affected
  • 7a2af766af15887754f7f7a0869b4603b390876a to before 97ccfffcc061e54ce87e4a51a40e2e9cb0b7076aAffected
  • 7a2af766af15887754f7f7a0869b4603b390876a to before 5b25035fb888cb2f78bf0b9c9f95b1dc54480d36Affected
  • 7a2af766af15887754f7f7a0869b4603b390876a to before d3b7b4afd6b2c344eabf9cc26b8bfa903c164c7cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.14Affected
  • before 4.14Not affected
  • 5.4.232 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.168 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.93 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.11 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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