CVE-2023-54151

CVE-2023-54151

High · published December 24, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

f2fs: Fix system crash due to lack of free space in LFS

When f2fs tries to checkpoint during foreground gc in LFS mode, system

crash occurs due to lack of free space if the amount of dirty node and

dentry pages generated by data migration exceeds free space.

The reproduction sequence is as follows.

- 20GiB capacity block device (null_blk)

- format and mount with LFS mode

- create a file and write 20,000MiB

- 4k random write on full range of the file

RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x48a/0x510 [f2fs]

Code: 55 e7 f5 89 c0 48 0f af c3 48 8b 5d c0 48 c1 e8 20 83 c0 01 89 43 6c 48 83 c4 28 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b f0 41 80 4f 48 04 45 85 f6 0f 84 ba fd ff ff e9 ef fe ff ff

RSP: 0018:ffff977bc397b218 EFLAGS: 00010246

RAX: 00000000000027b9 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000000027c0

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000027b9 RDI: ffff8c25ab4e74f8

RBP: ffff977bc397b268 R08: 00000000000027b9 R09: ffff8c29e4a34b40

R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff977bc397b0d8 R12: 0000000000000000

R13: ffff8c25b4dd81a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8c2f667f9000

FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c344ec80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 000000c00055d000 CR3: 0000000e30810003 CR4: 00000000003706e0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<TASK>

allocate_segment_by_default+0x9c/0x110 [f2fs]

f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x243/0xa30 [f2fs]

? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xa0/0x150

do_write_page+0x80/0x160 [f2fs]

f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x32/0x50 [f2fs]

__write_node_page+0x339/0x730 [f2fs]

f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x5a6/0x780 [f2fs]

block_operations+0x257/0x340 [f2fs]

f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x102/0x1050 [f2fs]

f2fs_gc+0x27c/0x630 [f2fs]

? folio_mark_dirty+0x36/0x70

f2fs_balance_fs+0x16f/0x180 [f2fs]

This patch adds checking whether free sections are enough before checkpoint

during gc.

[Jaegeuk Kim: code clean-up]

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00152 · 4.0th percentile
Published
2025-12-24T18:16Z
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 DEC 13:07Z
    f2fs: Fix system crash due to lack of free space in LFS
    cvelistv5