CVE-2021-46982

f2fs: compress: fix race condition of overwrite vs truncate

published February 28, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: compress: fix race condition of overwrite vs truncate

pos_fsstress testcase complains a panic as belew:

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kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/compress.c:1082!

invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI

CPU: 4 PID: 2753477 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Tainted: G OE 5.12.0-rc1-custom #1

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014

Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-252:16)

RIP: 0010:prepare_compress_overwrite+0x4c0/0x760 [f2fs]

Call Trace:

f2fs_prepare_compress_overwrite+0x5f/0x80 [f2fs]

f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x468/0x8a0 [f2fs]

f2fs_write_data_pages+0x2a4/0x2f0 [f2fs]

do_writepages+0x38/0xc0

__writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x2a0

writeback_sb_inodes+0x223/0x4d0

__writeback_inodes_wb+0x56/0xf0

wb_writeback+0x1dd/0x290

wb_workfn+0x309/0x500

process_one_work+0x220/0x3c0

worker_thread+0x53/0x420

kthread+0x12f/0x150

ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

The root cause is truncate() may race with overwrite as below,

so that one reference count left in page can not guarantee the

page attaching in mapping tree all the time, after truncation,

later find_lock_page() may return NULL pointer.

- prepare_compress_overwrite

- f2fs_pagecache_get_page

- unlock_page

- f2fs_setattr

- truncate_setsize

- truncate_inode_page

- delete_from_page_cache

- find_lock_page

Fix this by avoiding referencing updated page.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00179 · 7.1th percentile
Published
2024-02-28T08:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 FEB 08:13Z
    f2fs: compress: fix race condition of overwrite vs truncate
    cvelistv5