CVE-2025-38163

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38163
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38163.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38163
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-03T08:36:04.397Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:42:42.962032Z
Summary
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->total_valid_block_count
Details

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

f2fs: fix to do sanity check on sbi->totalvalidblock_count

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521! RIP: 0010:decvalidblockcount+0x3b2/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2521 Call Trace: f2fstruncatedatablocksrange+0xc8c/0x11a0 fs/f2fs/file.c:695 truncatednode+0x417/0x740 fs/f2fs/node.c:973 truncatenodes+0x3ec/0xf50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1014 f2fstruncateinodeblocks+0x8e3/0x1370 fs/f2fs/node.c:1197 f2fsdotruncateblocks+0x840/0x12b0 fs/f2fs/file.c:810 f2fstruncateblocks+0x10d/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:838 f2fstruncate+0x417/0x720 fs/f2fs/file.c:888 f2fssetattr+0xc4f/0x12f0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1112 notifychange+0xbca/0xe90 fs/attr.c:552 dotruncate+0x222/0x310 fs/open.c:65 handletruncate fs/namei.c:3466 [inline] doopen fs/namei.c:3849 [inline] pathopenat+0x2e4f/0x35d0 fs/namei.c:4004 dofilpopen+0x284/0x4e0 fs/namei.c:4031 dosysopenat2+0x12b/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1429 dosysopen fs/open.c:1444 [inline] __dosyscreat fs/open.c:1522 [inline] __sesyscreat fs/open.c:1516 [inline] __x64syscreat+0x124/0x170 fs/open.c:1516 dosyscallx64 arch/x86/entry/syscall64.c:63 [inline] dosyscall64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/syscall64.c:94

The reason is: in fuzzed image, sbi->totalvalidblock_count is inconsistent w/ mapped blocks indexed by inode, so, we should not trigger panic for such case, instead, let's print log and set fsck flag.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38163.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
39a53e0ce0df01b3cf4bb898c7ae2fd2189647d5
Fixed
49bc7bf38e42cfa642787e947f5721696ea73ac3
Fixed
f1b743c1955151bd392539b739a3ad155296be13
Fixed
6a324d77f7ea1a91d55c4b6ad970e3ac9ab6a20d
Fixed
25f3776b58c1c45ad2e50ab4b263505b4d2378ca
Fixed
a39cc43efc1bca74ed9d6cf9e60b995071f7d178
Fixed
65b3f76592aed5a43c4d79375ac097acf975972b
Fixed
ccc28c0397f75a3ec9539cceed9db014d7b73869
Fixed
05872a167c2cab80ef186ef23cc34a6776a1a30c

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38163.json"