Bug 2401562 (CVE-2023-53537) - CVE-2023-53537 kernel: f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio
Summary: CVE-2023-53537 kernel: f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53537
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-04 16:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-06 11:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:07:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio

xfstest generic/019 reports a bug:

kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1619!
RIP: 0010:folio_end_writeback+0x8a/0x90
Call Trace:
 end_page_writeback+0x1c/0x60
 f2fs_write_end_io+0x199/0x420
 bio_endio+0x104/0x180
 submit_bio_noacct+0xa5/0x510
 submit_bio+0x48/0x80
 f2fs_submit_write_bio+0x35/0x300
 f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write+0x2a0/0x2b0
 f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x838/0x8b0
 f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x379/0xa30
 f2fs_write_data_pages+0x30c/0x340
 do_writepages+0xd8/0x1b0
 __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x370
 writeback_sb_inodes+0x233/0x4d0
 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x56/0xf0
 wb_writeback+0x1dd/0x2d0
 wb_workfn+0x367/0x4a0
 process_one_work+0x21d/0x430
 worker_thread+0x4e/0x3c0
 kthread+0x103/0x130
 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50

The root cause is: after cp_error is set, f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write()
in f2fs_write_single_data_page() tries to flush IPU bio in cache, however
f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write() missed to check validity of @bio parameter,
result in submitting random cached bio which belong to other IO context,
then it will cause use-after-free issue, fix it by adding additional
validity check.


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