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f2fs: fix UAF caused by decrementing sbi->nr_pages[] in f2fs_write_end_io()
authorYongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com>
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:30:52 +0000 (15:30 +0800)
committerJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:21:00 +0000 (17:21 +0000)
commit2d9c4a4ed4eef1f82c5b16b037aee8bad819fd53
tree37b32c09c4cd8950cf4e0ce354f97048dea92856
parent570e2ccc7cb35fe720106964e65060602d3d2ac4
f2fs: fix UAF caused by decrementing sbi->nr_pages[] in f2fs_write_end_io()

The xfstests case "generic/107" and syzbot have both reported a NULL
pointer dereference.

The concurrent scenario that triggers the panic is as follows:

F2FS_WB_CP_DATA write callback          umount
                                        - f2fs_write_checkpoint
                                         - f2fs_wait_on_all_pages(sbi, F2FS_WB_CP_DATA)
- blk_mq_end_request
 - bio_endio
  - f2fs_write_end_io
   : dec_page_count(sbi, F2FS_WB_CP_DATA)
   : wake_up(&sbi->cp_wait)
                                        - kill_f2fs_super
                                         - kill_block_super
                                          - f2fs_put_super
                                           : iput(sbi->node_inode)
                                           : sbi->node_inode = NULL
   : f2fs_in_warm_node_list
    - is_node_folio // sbi->node_inode is NULL and panic

The root cause is that f2fs_put_super() calls iput(sbi->node_inode) and
sets sbi->node_inode to NULL after sbi->nr_pages[F2FS_WB_CP_DATA] is
decremented to zero. As a result, f2fs_in_warm_node_list() may
dereference a NULL node_inode when checking whether a folio belongs to
the node inode, leading to a panic.

This patch fixes the issue by calling f2fs_in_warm_node_list() before
decrementing sbi->nr_pages[F2FS_WB_CP_DATA], thus preventing the
use-after-free condition.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 50fa53eccf9f ("f2fs: fix to avoid broken of dnode block list")
Reported-by: syzbot+6e4cb1cac5efc96ea0ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
fs/f2fs/data.c