CVE-2025-38163

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->total_valid_block_count

published July 3, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->total_valid_block_count

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

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kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521!

RIP: 0010:dec_valid_block_count+0x3b2/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521

Call Trace:

f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0xc8c/0x11a0 fs/f2fs/file.c:695

truncate_dnode+0x417/0x740 fs/f2fs/node.c:973

truncate_nodes+0x3ec/0xf50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1014

f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks+0x8e3/0x1370 fs/f2fs/node.c:1197

f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x840/0x12b0 fs/f2fs/file.c:810

f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x10d/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:838

f2fs_truncate+0x417/0x720 fs/f2fs/file.c:888

f2fs_setattr+0xc4f/0x12f0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1112

notify_change+0xbca/0xe90 fs/attr.c:552

do_truncate+0x222/0x310 fs/open.c:65

handle_truncate fs/namei.c:3466 [inline]

do_open fs/namei.c:3849 [inline]

path_openat+0x2e4f/0x35d0 fs/namei.c:4004

do_filp_open+0x284/0x4e0 fs/namei.c:4031

do_sys_openat2+0x12b/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1429

do_sys_open fs/open.c:1444 [inline]

__do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1522 [inline]

__se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1516 [inline]

__x64_sys_creat+0x124/0x170 fs/open.c:1516

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

The reason is: in fuzzed image, sbi->total_valid_block_count is

inconsistent w/ mapped blocks indexed by inode, so, we should

not trigger panic for such case, instead, let's print log and

set fsck flag.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00183 · 7.5th percentile
Published
2025-07-03T08:36Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUL 08:36Z
    f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->total_valid_block_count
    cvelistv5