CVE-2025-38218

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sit_bitmap_size

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jul 4, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sit_bitmap_size

w/ below testcase, resize will generate a corrupted image which contains inconsistent metadata, so when mounting such image, it will trigger kernel panic:

touch img truncate -s $((512*1024*1024*1024)) img mkfs.f2fs -f img $((256*1024*1024)) resize.f2fs -s -i img -t $((1024*1024*1024)) mount img /mnt/f2fs

------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.h:863! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 3922 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1+ #191 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:f2fs_ra_meta_pages+0x47c/0x490

Call Trace: f2fs_build_segment_manager+0x11c3/0x2600 f2fs_fill_super+0xe97/0x2840 mount_bdev+0xf4/0x140 legacy_get_tree+0x2b/0x50 vfs_get_tree+0x29/0xd0 path_mount+0x487/0xaf0 __x64_sys_mount+0x116/0x150 do_syscall_64+0x82/0x190 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fdbfde1bcfe

The reaseon is:

sit_i->bitmap_size is 192, so size of sit bitmap is 192*8=1536, at maximum there are 1536 sit blocks, however MAIN_SEGS is 261893, so that sit_blk_cnt is 4762, build_sit_entries() -> current_sit_addr() tries to access out-of-boundary in sit_bitmap at offset from [1536, 4762), once sit_bitmap and sit_bitmap_mirror is not the same, it will trigger f2fs_bug_on().

Let's add sanity check in f2fs_sanity_check_ckpt() to avoid panic.

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 82f51bff393e4c12cf4de553120ca831cfa4ef19Affected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 38ef48a8afef8df646b6f6ae7abb872f18b533c1Affected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before ad862f71016ba38039df1c96ed55c0a4314cc183Affected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 79ef8a6c4ec53d327580fd7d2b522cf4f1d05b0cAffected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before ee1b421c469876544e297ec1090574bd76100247Affected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 3e5ac62a56a24f4d88ce8ffd7bc452428b235868Affected
  • 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 to before 5db0d252c64e91ba1929c70112352e85dc5751e7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.8Affected
  • before 3.8Not affected
  • 5.10.239 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.186 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.142 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.95 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.35 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.15.4 through 6.15.*Not affected
  • 6.16 and laterNot affected

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