Bug 2334375 (CVE-2024-53221)

Summary: CVE-2024-53221 kernel: f2fs: fix null-ptr-deref in f2fs_submit_page_bio()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-27 14:02:48 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix null-ptr-deref in f2fs_submit_page_bio()

There's issue as follows when concurrently installing the f2fs.ko
module and mounting the f2fs file system:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000020-0x0000000000000027]
RIP: 0010:__bio_alloc+0x2fb/0x6c0 [f2fs]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 f2fs_submit_page_bio+0x126/0x8b0 [f2fs]
 __get_meta_page+0x1d4/0x920 [f2fs]
 get_checkpoint_version.constprop.0+0x2b/0x3c0 [f2fs]
 validate_checkpoint+0xac/0x290 [f2fs]
 f2fs_get_valid_checkpoint+0x207/0x950 [f2fs]
 f2fs_fill_super+0x1007/0x39b0 [f2fs]
 mount_bdev+0x183/0x250
 legacy_get_tree+0xf4/0x1e0
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x340
 do_new_mount+0x283/0x5e0
 path_mount+0x2b2/0x15b0
 __x64_sys_mount+0x1fe/0x270
 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Above issue happens as the biset of the f2fs file system is not
initialized before register "f2fs_fs_type".
To address above issue just register "f2fs_fs_type" at the last in
init_f2fs_fs(). Ensure that all f2fs file system resources are
initialized.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-28 13:46:56 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122733-CVE-2024-53221-d8b2@gregkh/T