CVE-2025-68796
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
13/01/2026
Last modified:
13/01/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
f2fs: fix to avoid updating zero-sized extent in extent cache<br />
<br />
As syzbot reported:<br />
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F2FS-fs (loop0): __update_extent_tree_range: extent len is zero, type: 0, extent [0, 0, 0], age [0, 0]<br />
------------[ cut here ]------------<br />
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:678!<br />
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI<br />
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5336 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)<br />
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014<br />
RIP: 0010:__update_extent_tree_range+0x13bc/0x1500 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:678<br />
Call Trace:<br />
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f2fs_update_read_extent_cache_range+0x192/0x3e0 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1085<br />
f2fs_do_zero_range fs/f2fs/file.c:1657 [inline]<br />
f2fs_zero_range+0x10c1/0x1580 fs/f2fs/file.c:1737<br />
f2fs_fallocate+0x583/0x990 fs/f2fs/file.c:2030<br />
vfs_fallocate+0x669/0x7e0 fs/open.c:342<br />
ioctl_preallocate fs/ioctl.c:289 [inline]<br />
file_ioctl+0x611/0x780 fs/ioctl.c:-1<br />
do_vfs_ioctl+0xb33/0x1430 fs/ioctl.c:576<br />
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:595 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_ioctl+0x82/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583<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 />
RIP: 0033:0x7f07bc58eec9<br />
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In error path of f2fs_zero_range(), it may add a zero-sized extent<br />
into extent cache, it should be avoided.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f244c64efe628d277b916f47071adf480eb8646
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c37c79510329cd951a4dedf3f7bf7e2b18dccec
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bac23833220a1f8fe8dfab7e16efa20ff64d7589
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e50b81c50fcbe63f50405bb40f262162ff32af88
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efe3371001f50a2d6f746b50bdc6f9f26b2089ec



