High · published October 28, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on node footer for non inode dnode
As syzbot reported below:
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kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/file.c:1243!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5354 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-syzkaller-00211-g90d970cade8e #0 PREEMPT(full)
RIP: 0010:f2fs_truncate_hole+0x69e/0x6c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1243
Call Trace:
<TASK>
f2fs_punch_hole+0x2db/0x330 fs/f2fs/file.c:1306
f2fs_fallocate+0x546/0x990 fs/f2fs/file.c:2018
vfs_fallocate+0x666/0x7e0 fs/open.c:342
ksys_fallocate fs/open.c:366 [inline]
__do_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:371 [inline]
__se_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:369 [inline]
__x64_sys_fallocate+0xc0/0x110 fs/open.c:369
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f1e65f8ebe9
w/ a fuzzed image, f2fs may encounter panic due to it detects inconsistent
truncation range in direct node in f2fs_truncate_hole().
The root cause is: a non-inode dnode may has the same footer.ino and
footer.nid, so the dnode will be parsed as an inode, then ADDRS_PER_PAGE()
may return wrong blkaddr count which may be 923 typically, by chance,
dn.ofs_in_node is equal to 923, then count can be calculated to 0 in below
statement, later it will trigger panic w/ f2fs_bug_on(, count == 0 || ...).
count = min(end_offset - dn.ofs_in_node, pg_end - pg_start);
This patch introduces a new node_type NODE_TYPE_NON_INODE, then allowing
passing the new_type to sanity_check_node_footer in f2fs_get_node_folio()
to detect corruption that a non-inode dnode has the same footer.ino and
footer.nid.
Scripts to reproduce:
mkfs.f2fs -f /dev/vdb
mount /dev/vdb /mnt/f2fs
touch /mnt/f2fs/foo
touch /mnt/f2fs/bar
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/f2fs/foo bs=1M count=8
umount /mnt/f2fs
inject.f2fs --node --mb i_nid --nid 4 --idx 0 --val 5 /dev/vdb
mount /dev/vdb /mnt/f2fs
xfs_io /mnt/f2fs/foo -c "fpunch 6984k 4k"