CVE-2021-46982

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Race Condition in F2FS Compress Overwrite vs Truncate

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: compress: fix race condition of overwrite vs truncate pos_fsstress testcase complains a panic as belew: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/compress.c:1082! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 4 PID: 2753477 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Tainted: G OE 5.12.0-rc1-custom #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-252:16) RIP: 0010:prepare_compress_overwrite+0x4c0/0x760 [f2fs] Call Trace: f2fs_prepare_compress_overwrite+0x5f/0x80 [f2fs] f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x468/0x8a0 [f2fs] f2fs_write_data_pages+0x2a4/0x2f0 [f2fs] do_writepages+0x38/0xc0 __writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x2a0 writeback_sb_inodes+0x223/0x4d0 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x56/0xf0 wb_writeback+0x1dd/0x290 wb_workfn+0x309/0x500 process_one_work+0x220/0x3c0 worker_thread+0x53/0x420 kthread+0x12f/0x150 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 The root cause is truncate() may race with overwrite as below, so that one reference count left in page can not guarantee the page attaching in mapping tree all the time, after truncation, later find_lock_page() may return NULL pointer. - prepare_compress_overwrite - f2fs_pagecache_get_page - unlock_page - f2fs_setattr - truncate_setsize - truncate_inode_page - delete_from_page_cache - find_lock_page Fix this by avoiding referencing updated page.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux < 5.6
Linux/Linux 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 - 5639b73fd3bc6fc8ca72e3a9ac15aacaabd7ebff
Linux/Linux 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 - 64acb100fe3beb5d20184d0ae3307235bd3555c4
Linux/Linux 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 - 936158b15e2648253afb824d252c910c496d34b5
Linux/Linux 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 - a949dc5f2c5cfe0c910b664650f45371254c0744
Linux/Linux 5.10.38 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.11.22 - 5.11.*
Linux/Linux 5.12.5 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.6
... and 2 more
Published Feb 28, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026