5.5

CVE-2025-38163

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

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 3.8 < 5.4.295
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.239
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.186
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.142
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.94
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.34
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.3
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.15% 0.046
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49bc7bf38e42cfa642787e947f5721696ea73ac3
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1b743c1955151bd392539b739a3ad155296be13
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a324d77f7ea1a91d55c4b6ad970e3ac9ab6a20d
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f3776b58c1c45ad2e50ab4b263505b4d2378ca
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a39cc43efc1bca74ed9d6cf9e60b995071f7d178
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65b3f76592aed5a43c4d79375ac097acf975972b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccc28c0397f75a3ec9539cceed9db014d7b73869
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05872a167c2cab80ef186ef23cc34a6776a1a30c
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory