Bug 2360191 (CVE-2025-23132)

Summary: CVE-2025-23132 kernel: f2fs: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-16 15:01:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots()

F2FS-fs (dm-59): checkpoint=enable has some unwritten data.

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WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8013 at fs/quota/dquot.c:691 dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
pc : dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
lr : f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4
Call trace:
dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4
f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3d4/0x9b0
f2fs_issue_checkpoint+0x1bc/0x2c0
f2fs_sync_fs+0x54/0x150
f2fs_do_sync_file+0x2f8/0x814
__f2fs_ioctl+0x1960/0x3244
f2fs_ioctl+0x54/0xe0
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xe4
invoke_syscall+0x58/0x114

checkpoint and f2fs_remount may race as below, resulting triggering warning
in dquot_writeback_dquots().

atomic write                                    remount
                                                - do_remount
                                                 - down_write(&sb->s_umount);
                                                  - f2fs_remount
- ioctl
 - f2fs_do_sync_file
  - f2fs_sync_fs
   - f2fs_write_checkpoint
    - block_operations
     - locked = down_read_trylock(&sbi->sb->s_umount)
       : fail to lock due to the write lock was held by remount
                                                 - up_write(&sb->s_umount);
     - f2fs_quota_sync
      - dquot_writeback_dquots
       - WARN_ON_ONCE(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount))
       : trigger warning because s_umount lock was unlocked by remount

If checkpoint comes from mount/umount/remount/freeze/quotactl, caller of
checkpoint has already held s_umount lock, calling dquot_writeback_dquots()
in the context should be safe.

So let's record task to sbi->umount_lock_holder, so that checkpoint can
know whether the lock has held in the context or not by checking current
w/ it.

In addition, in order to not misrepresent caller of checkpoint, we should
not allow to trigger async checkpoint for those callers: mount/umount/remount/
freeze/quotactl.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-17 16:45:23 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025041631-CVE-2025-23132-cbf9@gregkh/T