CVE-2026-23234

f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()

published March 4, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()

As syzbot reported an use-after-free issue in f2fs_write_end_io().

It is caused by below race condition:

loop device umount

- worker_thread

- loop_process_work

- do_req_filebacked

- lo_rw_aio

- lo_rw_aio_complete

- blk_mq_end_request

- blk_update_request

- f2fs_write_end_io

- dec_page_count

- folio_end_writeback

- kill_f2fs_super

- kill_block_super

- f2fs_put_super

: free(sbi)

: get_pages(, F2FS_WB_CP_DATA)

accessed sbi which is freed

In kill_f2fs_super(), we will drop all page caches of f2fs inodes before

call free(sbi), it guarantee that all folios should end its writeback, so

it should be safe to access sbi before last folio_end_writeback().

Let's relocate ckpt thread wakeup flow before folio_end_writeback() to

resolve this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00124 · 2.0th percentile
Published
2026-03-04T14:36Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 MAR 14:36Z
    f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()
    cvelistv5