Bug 2379242 (CVE-2025-38333)

Summary: CVE-2025-38333 kernel: f2fs: fix to bail out in get_new_segment()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-10 09:02:24 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to bail out in get_new_segment()

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WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 579 at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2832 new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
pc : new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
Call trace:
 new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
 f2fs_allocate_data_block+0xa54/0xe28
 do_write_page+0x6c/0x194
 f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x38/0x78
 __write_node_page+0x248/0x6d4
 f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x524/0x72c
 f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x4bc/0x9b0
 __checkpoint_and_complete_reqs+0x80/0x244
 issue_checkpoint_thread+0x8c/0xec
 kthread+0x114/0x1bc
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

get_new_segment() detects inconsistent status in between free_segmap
and free_secmap, let's record such error into super block, and bail
out get_new_segment() instead of continue using the segment.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-11 05:45:29 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025071033-CVE-2025-38333-a60d@gregkh/T