Bug 2390406 (CVE-2025-38626) - CVE-2025-38626 kernel: f2fs: fix to trigger foreground gc during f2fs_map_blocks() in lfs mode
Summary: CVE-2025-38626 kernel: f2fs: fix to trigger foreground gc during f2fs_map_blo...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38626
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-08-22 17:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-22 19:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-22 17:05:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to trigger foreground gc during f2fs_map_blocks() in lfs mode

w/ "mode=lfs" mount option, generic/299 will cause system panic as below:

------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2835!
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x6f4/0xc50
 f2fs_map_blocks+0x970/0x1550
 f2fs_iomap_begin+0xb2/0x1e0
 iomap_iter+0x1d6/0x430
 __iomap_dio_rw+0x208/0x9a0
 f2fs_file_write_iter+0x6b3/0xfa0
 aio_write+0x15d/0x2e0
 io_submit_one+0x55e/0xab0
 __x64_sys_io_submit+0xa5/0x230
 do_syscall_64+0x84/0x2f0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x70f/0x720

The root cause of we run out-of-space is: in f2fs_map_blocks(), f2fs may
trigger foreground gc only if it allocates any physical block, it will be
a little bit later when there is multiple threads writing data w/
aio/dio/bufio method in parallel, since we always use OPU in lfs mode, so
f2fs_map_blocks() does block allocations aggressively.

In order to fix this issue, let's give a chance to trigger foreground
gc in prior to block allocation in f2fs_map_blocks().


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