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fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_sync_inode_meta()","CVE":"CVE-2025-38578","Year":"2025"},"notes":[{"CveYear":"2025","CveId":"38578","Ordinal":"1","NoteData":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_sync_inode_meta()\n\nsyzbot reported an UAF issue as below: [1] [2]\n\n[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=CrashReport&x=16594c60580000\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:62\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff888100567dc8 by task kworker/u4:0/8\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 8 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Tainted: G        W          6.1.129-syzkaller-00017-g642656a36791 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2025\nWorkqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x151/0x1b7 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]\n print_report+0x158/0x4e0 mm/kasan/report.c:427\n kasan_report+0x13c/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:531\n __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:351\n __list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:62\n __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:134 [inline]\n list_del_init include/linux/list.h:206 [inline]\n f2fs_inode_synced+0x100/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:1553\n f2fs_update_inode+0x72/0x1c40 fs/f2fs/inode.c:588\n f2fs_update_inode_page+0x135/0x170 fs/f2fs/inode.c:706\n f2fs_write_inode+0x416/0x790 fs/f2fs/inode.c:734\n write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1460 [inline]\n __writeback_single_inode+0x4cf/0xb80 fs/fs-writeback.c:1677\n writeback_sb_inodes+0xb32/0x1910 fs/fs-writeback.c:1903\n __writeback_inodes_wb+0x118/0x3f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1974\n wb_writeback+0x3da/0xa00 fs/fs-writeback.c:2081\n wb_check_background_flush fs/fs-writeback.c:2151 [inline]\n wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2239 [inline]\n wb_workfn+0xbba/0x1030 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