CVE-2025-22127 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix potential deadloop in prepare_compress_overwrite()

Jan Prusakowski reported a kernel hang issue as below:

When running xfstests on linux-next kernel (6.14.0-rc3 6.12) I encountered a problem in generic/475 test where fsstress process gets blocked in __f2fs_write_data_pages() and the test hangs. The options I used are:

MKFS_OPTIONS – -O compression -O extra_attr -O project_quota -O quota /dev/vdc MOUNT_OPTIONS – -o acluser_xattr -o discardcompress_extension= /dev/vdc /vdc

INFO: task kworker/u8:0:11 blocked for more than 122 seconds. Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-xfstests-lockdep 1 cho 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\ disables this message. task:kworker/u8:0 state:D stack:0 pid:11 tgid:11 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4208160 flags:0x00004000 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-253:0) Call Trace: __schedule+0x309/0x8e0 schedule+0x3a/0x100 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30 __mutex_lock+0x59a/0xdb0 __f2fs_write_data_pages+0x3ac/0x400 do_writepages+0xe8/0x290 __writeback_single_inode+0x5c/0x360 writeback_sb_inodes+0x22f/0x570 wb_writeback+0xb0/0x410 wb_do_writeback+0x47/0x2f0 wb_workfn+0x5a/0x1c0 process_one_work+0x223/0x5b0 worker_thread+0x1d5/0x3c0 kthread+0xfd/0x230 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

The root cause is: once generic/475 starts toload error table to dm device f2fs_prepare_compress_overwrite() will loop reading compressed cluster pages due to IO error meanwhile it has held .writepages lock it can block all other writeback tasks.

Let’s fix this issue w/ below changes:

• add f2fs_handle_page_eio() in prepare_compress_overwrite() to detect IO error.
• detect cp_error earler in f2fs_read_multi_pages().

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3147ee567dd9004a49826ddeaf0a4b12865d4409 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7215cf8ef54bdc9082dffac4662416d54961e258