CVE-2025-40137

CVE-2025-40137

published November 12, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

f2fs: fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate()

syzbot reports a bug as below:

loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 40427

F2FS-fs (loop0): Wrong SSA boundary, start(3584) end(4096) blocks(3072)

F2FS-fs (loop0): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock

F2FS-fs (loop0): invalid crc value

F2FS-fs (loop0): f2fs_convert_inline_folio: corrupted inline inode ino=3, i_addr[0]:0x1601, run fsck to fix.

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kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:753!

RIP: 0010:clear_inode+0x169/0x190 fs/inode.c:753

Call Trace:

<TASK>

evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810

f2fs_fill_super+0x5612/0x6fa0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5047

get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1692

vfs_get_tree+0x8f/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1815

do_new_mount+0x2a2/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3808

do_mount fs/namespace.c:4136 [inline]

__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4347 [inline]

__se_sys_mount+0x317/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4324

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

During f2fs_evict_inode(), clear_inode() detects that we missed to truncate

all page cache before destorying inode, that is because in below path, we

will create page #0 in cache, but missed to drop it in error path, let's fix

it.

- evict

- f2fs_evict_inode

- f2fs_truncate

- f2fs_convert_inline_inode

- f2fs_grab_cache_folio

: create page #0 in cache

- f2fs_convert_inline_folio

: sanity check failed, return -EFSCORRUPTED

- clear_inode detects that inode->i_data.nrpages is not zero

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00214 · 11.1th percentile
Published
2025-11-12T16:15Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 NOV 10:23Z
    f2fs: fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate()
    cvelistv5