CVE-2025-68772

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

f2fs: fix to avoid updating compression context during writeback

Bai, Shuangpeng reported a bug as below:

Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11441 Comm: syz.0.46 Not tainted 6.17.0 #1 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:f2fs_all_cluster_page_ready+0x106/0x550 fs/f2fs/compress.c:857
Call Trace:

f2fs_write_cache_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3078 [inline]
__f2fs_write_data_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3290 [inline]
f2fs_write_data_pages+0x1c19/0x3600 fs/f2fs/data.c:3317
do_writepages+0x38e/0x640 mm/page-writeback.c:2634
filemap_fdatawrite_wbc mm/filemap.c:386 [inline]
__filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:419 [inline]
file_write_and_wait_range+0x2ba/0x3e0 mm/filemap.c:794
f2fs_do_sync_file+0x6e6/0x1b00 fs/f2fs/file.c:294
generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:3043 [inline]
f2fs_file_write_iter+0x76e/0x2700 fs/f2fs/file.c:5259
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x7e9/0xe00 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0x19d/0x2d0 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf7/0x470 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The bug was triggered w/ below race condition:

fsync setattr ioctl
– f2fs_do_sync_file
– file_write_and_wait_range
– f2fs_write_cache_pages
: inode is non-compressed
: cc.cluster_size =
F2FS_I(inode)->i_cluster_size = 0
– tag_pages_for_writeback
– f2fs_setattr
– truncate_setsize
– f2fs_truncate
– f2fs_fileattr_set
– f2fs_setflags_common
– set_compress_context
: F2FS_I(inode)->i_cluster_size = 4
: set_inode_flag(inode, FI_COMPRESSED_FILE)
– f2fs_compressed_file
: return true
– f2fs_all_cluster_page_ready
: “pgidx % cc->cluster_size” trigger dividing 0 issue

Let’s change as below to fix this issue:
– introduce a new atomic type variable .writeback in structure f2fs_inode_info
to track the number of threads which calling f2fs_write_cache_pages().
– use .i_sem lock to protect .writeback update.
– check .writeback before update compression context in f2fs_setflags_common()
to avoid race w/ ->writepages.