CVE-2025-40137
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/11/2025
Last modified:
12/11/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
f2fs: fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate()<br />
<br />
syzbot reports a bug as below:<br />
<br />
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 40427<br />
F2FS-fs (loop0): Wrong SSA boundary, start(3584) end(4096) blocks(3072)<br />
F2FS-fs (loop0): Can&#39;t find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock<br />
F2FS-fs (loop0): invalid crc value<br />
F2FS-fs (loop0): f2fs_convert_inline_folio: corrupted inline inode ino=3, i_addr[0]:0x1601, run fsck to fix.<br />
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kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:753!<br />
RIP: 0010:clear_inode+0x169/0x190 fs/inode.c:753<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810<br />
f2fs_fill_super+0x5612/0x6fa0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5047<br />
get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1692<br />
vfs_get_tree+0x8f/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1815<br />
do_new_mount+0x2a2/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3808<br />
do_mount fs/namespace.c:4136 [inline]<br />
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4347 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_mount+0x317/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4324<br />
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]<br />
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f<br />
<br />
During f2fs_evict_inode(), clear_inode() detects that we missed to truncate<br />
all page cache before destorying inode, that is because in below path, we<br />
will create page #0 in cache, but missed to drop it in error path, let&#39;s fix<br />
it.<br />
<br />
- evict<br />
- f2fs_evict_inode<br />
- f2fs_truncate<br />
- f2fs_convert_inline_inode<br />
- f2fs_grab_cache_folio<br />
: create page #0 in cache<br />
- f2fs_convert_inline_folio<br />
: sanity check failed, return -EFSCORRUPTED<br />
- clear_inode detects that inode->i_data.nrpages is not zero



