Medium · published February 26, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check for inline inode
Yanming reported a kernel bug in Bugzilla kernel [1], which can be
reproduced. The bug message is:
The kernel message is shown below:
kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:611!
Call Trace:
evict+0x282/0x4e0
__dentry_kill+0x2b2/0x4d0
dput+0x2dd/0x720
do_renameat2+0x596/0x970
__x64_sys_rename+0x78/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215895
The bug is due to fuzzed inode has both inline_data and encrypted flags.
During f2fs_evict_inode(), as the inode was deleted by rename(), it
will cause inline data conversion due to conflicting flags. The page
cache will be polluted and the panic will be triggered in clear_inode().
Try fixing the bug by doing more sanity checks for inline data inode in
sanity_check_inode().
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 3.8, < 5.10.121 | 5.10.121 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.46 | 5.15.46 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.16, < 5.17.14 | 5.17.14 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.18, < 5.18.3 | 5.18.3 |