Bug 2360272 (CVE-2025-22123) - CVE-2025-22123 kernel: f2fs: fix to avoid accessing uninitialized curseg
Summary: CVE-2025-22123 kernel: f2fs: fix to avoid accessing uninitialized curseg
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-22123
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-04-16 15:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-17 09:29 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-16 15:05:46 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-04-17 08:05:22 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025041628-CVE-2025-22123-5ca9@gregkh/T


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