Bug 2492439 (CVE-2026-53018) - CVE-2026-53018 kernel: f2fs: avoid reading already updated pages during GC
Summary: CVE-2026-53018 kernel: f2fs: avoid reading already updated pages during GC
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53018
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-06-24 18:12 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-25 16:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-24 18:12:08 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: avoid reading already updated pages during GC

We found the following issue during fuzz testing:

page: refcount:3 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000b6e89c65 index:0x18b2dc pfn:0x161ba9
memcg:f8ffff800e269c00
aops:f2fs_meta_aops ino:2
flags: 0x52880000000080a9(locked|waiters|uptodate|lru|private|zone=1|kasantag=0x4a)
raw: 52880000000080a9 fffffffec6e17588 fffffffec0ccc088 a7ffff8067063618
raw: 000000000018b2dc 0000000000000009 00000003ffffffff f8ffff800e269c00
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_uptodate(folio))
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
 post_alloc_hook+0x58c/0x5ec
 prep_new_page+0x34/0x284
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2dcc/0x2e8c
 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x280/0x76c
 __folio_alloc_noprof+0x18/0xac
 __filemap_get_folio+0x6bc/0xdc4
 pagecache_get_page+0x3c/0x104
 do_garbage_collect+0x5c78/0x77a4
 f2fs_gc+0xd74/0x25f0
 gc_thread_func+0xb28/0x2930
 kthread+0x464/0x5d8
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1563!
 folio_end_read+0x140/0x168
 f2fs_finish_read_bio+0x5c4/0xb80
 f2fs_read_end_io+0x64c/0x708
 bio_endio+0x85c/0x8c0
 blk_update_request+0x690/0x127c
 scsi_end_request+0x9c/0xb8c
 scsi_io_completion+0xf0/0x250
 scsi_finish_command+0x430/0x45c
 scsi_complete+0x178/0x6d4
 blk_mq_complete_request+0xcc/0x104
 scsi_done_internal+0x214/0x454
 scsi_done+0x24/0x34

which is similar to the problem reported by syzbot:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3686758660f980b402dc

This case is consistent with the description in commit 9bf1a3f
("f2fs: avoid GC causing encrypted file corrupted"):
Page 1 is moved from blkaddr A to blkaddr B by move_data_block, and after
being written it is marked as uptodate. Then, Page 1 is moved from blkaddr
B to blkaddr C, VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO was triggered in the endio initiated by
ra_data_block.

There is no need to read Page 1 again from blkaddr B, since it has already
been updated. Therefore, avoid initiating I/O in this case.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-06-25 09:38:14 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062451-CVE-2026-53018-3797@gregkh/T


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