High · published December 24, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to drop all dirty pages during umount() if cp_error is set
xfstest generic/361 reports a bug as below:
f2fs_bug_on(sbi, sbi->fsync_node_num);
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/super.c:1627!
RIP: 0010:f2fs_put_super+0x3a8/0x3b0
Call Trace:
generic_shutdown_super+0x8c/0x1b0
kill_block_super+0x2b/0x60
kill_f2fs_super+0x87/0x110
deactivate_locked_super+0x39/0x80
deactivate_super+0x46/0x50
cleanup_mnt+0x109/0x170
__cleanup_mnt+0x16/0x20
task_work_run+0x65/0xa0
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x175/0x190
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x25/0x50
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
During umount(), if cp_error is set, f2fs_wait_on_all_pages() should
not stop waiting all F2FS_WB_CP_DATA pages to be writebacked, otherwise,
fsync_node_num can be non-zero after f2fs_wait_on_all_pages() causing
this bug.
In this case, to avoid deadloop in f2fs_wait_on_all_pages(), it needs
to drop all dirty pages rather than redirtying them.