CVE-2026-31714

f2fs: fix to avoid memory leak in f2fs_rename()

published May 1, 2026

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

f2fs: fix to avoid memory leak in f2fs_rename()

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff888127f70830 (size 16):

comm "syz.0.23", pid 6144, jiffies 4294943712

hex dump (first 16 bytes):

3c af 57 72 5b e6 8f ad 6e 8e fd 33 42 39 03 ff <.Wr[...n..3B9..

backtrace (crc 925f8a80):

kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]

slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4520 [inline]

slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4844 [inline]

__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5237 [inline]

__kmalloc_noprof+0x3bd/0x560 mm/slub.c:5250

kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]

fscrypt_setup_filename+0x15e/0x3b0 fs/crypto/fname.c:364

f2fs_setup_filename+0x52/0xb0 fs/f2fs/dir.c:143

f2fs_rename+0x159/0xca0 fs/f2fs/namei.c:961

f2fs_rename2+0xd5/0xf20 fs/f2fs/namei.c:1308

vfs_rename+0x7ff/0x1250 fs/namei.c:6026

filename_renameat2+0x4f4/0x660 fs/namei.c:6144

__do_sys_renameat2 fs/namei.c:6173 [inline]

__se_sys_renameat2 fs/namei.c:6168 [inline]

__x64_sys_renameat2+0x59/0x80 fs/namei.c:6168

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

do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The root cause is in commit 40b2d55e0452 ("f2fs: fix to create selinux

label during whiteout initialization"), we added a call to

f2fs_setup_filename() without a matching call to f2fs_free_filename(),

fix it.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.0th percentile
Published
2026-05-01T13:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 13:56Z
    f2fs: fix to avoid memory leak in f2fs_rename()
    cvelistv5