CVE-2025-71065

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

f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock

As Jiaming Zhang and syzbot reported, there is potential deadlock in
f2fs as below:

Chain exists of:
&sbi->cp_rwsem –> fs_reclaim –> sb_internal#2

Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0 CPU1
—- —-
rlock(sb_internal#2);
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(sb_internal#2);
rlock(&sbi->cp_rwsem);

*** DEADLOCK ***

3 locks held by kswapd0/73:
#0: ffffffff8e247a40 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:7015 [inline]
#0: ffffffff8e247a40 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: kswapd+0x951/0x2800 mm/vmscan.c:7389
#1: ffff8880118400e0 (&type->s_umount_key#50){.+.+}-{4:4}, at: super_trylock_shared fs/super.c:562 [inline]
#1: ffff8880118400e0 (&type->s_umount_key#50){.+.+}-{4:4}, at: super_cache_scan+0x91/0x4b0 fs/super.c:197
#2: ffff888011840610 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: f2fs_evict_inode+0x8d9/0x1b60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:890

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 73 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_circular_bug+0x2ee/0x310 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2043
check_noncircular+0x134/0x160 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2175
check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3165 [inline]
check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3284 [inline]
validate_chain+0xb9b/0x2140 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3908
__lock_acquire+0xab9/0xd20 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237
lock_acquire+0x120/0x360 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868
down_read+0x46/0x2e0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1537
f2fs_down_read fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2278 [inline]
f2fs_lock_op fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2357 [inline]
f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x21c/0x10c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:791
f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x10a/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:867
f2fs_truncate+0x489/0x7c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:925
f2fs_evict_inode+0x9f2/0x1b60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:897
evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810
f2fs_evict_inode+0x1dc/0x1b60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:853
evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810
dispose_list fs/inode.c:852 [inline]
prune_icache_sb+0x21b/0x2c0 fs/inode.c:1000
super_cache_scan+0x39b/0x4b0 fs/super.c:224
do_shrink_slab+0x6ef/0x1110 mm/shrinker.c:437
shrink_slab_memcg mm/shrinker.c:550 [inline]
shrink_slab+0x7ef/0x10d0 mm/shrinker.c:628
shrink_one+0x28a/0x7c0 mm/vmscan.c:4955
shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:5016 [inline]
lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:5094 [inline]
shrink_node+0x315d/0x3780 mm/vmscan.c:6081
kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6941 [inline]
balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:7124 [inline]
kswapd+0x147c/0x2800 mm/vmscan.c:7389
kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The root cause is deadlock among four locks as below:

kswapd
– fs_reclaim — Lock A
– shrink_one
– evict
– f2fs_evict_inode
– sb_start_intwrite — Lock B

– iput
– evict
– f2fs_evict_inode
– sb_start_intwrite — Lock B
– f2fs_truncate
– f2fs_truncate_blocks
– f2fs_do_truncate_blocks
– f2fs_lock_op — Lock C

ioctl
– f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write
– f2fs_lock_op — Lock C
– __f2fs_commit_atomic_write
– __replace_atomic_write_block
– f2fs_get_dnode_of_data
– __get_node_folio
– f2fs_check_nid_range
– f2fs_handle_error
– f2fs_record_errors
– f2fs_down_write — Lock D

open
– do_open
– do_truncate
– security_inode_need_killpriv
– f2fs_getxattr
– lookup_all_xattrs
– f2fs_handle_error
– f2fs_record_errors
– f2fs_down_write — Lock D
– f2fs_commit_super
– read_mapping_folio
– filemap_alloc_folio_noprof
– prepare_alloc_pages
– fs_reclaim_acquire — Lock A

In order to a
—truncated—