Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-22123
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid accessing uninitialized curseg
syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:
F2FS-fs (loop3): Stopped filesystem due to reason: 7
kworker/u8:7: attempt to access beyond end of device
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffed1604ea3dfa
RIP: 0010:get_ckpt_valid_blocks fs/f2fs/segment.h:361 [inline]
RIP: 0010:has_curseg_enough_space fs/f2fs/segment.h:570 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__get_secs_required fs/f2fs/segment.h:620 [inline]
RIP: 0010:has_not_enough_free_secs fs/f2fs/segment.h:633 [inline]
RIP: 0010:has_enough_free_secs+0x575/0x1660 fs/f2fs/segment.h:649
<TASK>
f2fs_is_checkpoint_ready fs/f2fs/segment.h:671 [inline]
f2fs_write_inode+0x425/0x540 fs/f2fs/inode.c:791
write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1525 [inline]
__writeback_single_inode+0x708/0x10d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1745
writeback_sb_inodes+0x820/0x1360 fs/fs-writeback.c:1976
wb_writeback+0x413/0xb80 fs/fs-writeback.c:2156
wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2303 [inline]
wb_workfn+0x410/0x1080 fs/fs-writeback.c:2343
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa66/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3317
worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3398
kthread+0x7a9/0x920 kernel/kthread.c:464
ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
Commit 8b10d3653735 ("f2fs: introduce FAULT_NO_SEGMENT") allows to trigger
no free segment fault in allocator, then it will update curseg->segno to
NULL_SEGNO, though, CP_ERROR_FLAG has been set, f2fs_write_inode() missed
to check the flag, and access invalid curseg->segno directly in below call
path, then resulting in panic:
- f2fs_write_inode
- f2fs_is_checkpoint_ready
- has_enough_free_secs
- has_not_enough_free_secs
- __get_secs_required
- has_curseg_enough_space
- get_ckpt_valid_blocks
: access invalid curseg->segno
To avoid this issue, let's:
- check CP_ERROR_FLAG flag in prior to f2fs_is_checkpoint_ready() in
f2fs_write_inode().
- in has_curseg_enough_space(), save curseg->segno into a temp variable,
and verify its validation before use.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 7.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2025-22123
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