CVE-2024-44942

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on F2FS_INLINE_DATA flag in inode during GC

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 26, 2024
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Aug 21, 2024

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Description

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

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on F2FS_INLINE_DATA flag in inode during GC

syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:

------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/inline.c:258! CPU: 1 PID: 34 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc6-syzkaller-00012-g9e4bc4bcae01 #0 RIP: 0010:f2fs_write_inline_data+0x781/0x790 fs/f2fs/inline.c:258 Call Trace: f2fs_write_single_data_page+0xb65/0x1d60 fs/f2fs/data.c:2834 f2fs_write_cache_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3133 [inline] __f2fs_write_data_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3288 [inline] f2fs_write_data_pages+0x1efe/0x3a90 fs/f2fs/data.c:3315 do_writepages+0x35b/0x870 mm/page-writeback.c:2612 __writeback_single_inode+0x165/0x10b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1650 writeback_sb_inodes+0x905/0x1260 fs/fs-writeback.c:1941 wb_writeback+0x457/0xce0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2117 wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2264 [inline] wb_workfn+0x410/0x1090 fs/fs-writeback.c:2304 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3254 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xa12/0x17c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3335 worker_thread+0x86d/0xd70 kernel/workqueue.c:3416 kthread+0x2f2/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244

The root cause is: inline_data inode can be fuzzed, so that there may be valid blkaddr in its direct node, once f2fs triggers background GC to migrate the block, it will hit f2fs_bug_on() during dirty page writeback.

Let's add sanity check on F2FS_INLINE_DATA flag in inode during GC, so that, it can forbid migrating inline_data inode's data block for fixing.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 54a8da38b70553b61e2265ee0f26d034349dde25Affected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before ae00e6536a2dd54b64b39e9a39548870cf835745Affected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 26c07775fb5dc74351d1c3a2bc3cdf609b03e49fAffected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before fc01008c92f40015aeeced94750855a7111b6929Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.8Affected
  • before 3.8Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.47 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.10.6 through 6.10.*Not affected
  • 6.11 and laterNot affected

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