CVE-2022-49317 — f2fs: avoid infinite loop to flush node pages

Description

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

f2fs: avoid infinite loop to flush node pages

xfstests/generic/475 can give EIO all the time which give an infinite loop
to flush node page like below. Let's avoid it.

[16418.518551] Call Trace:
[16418.518553] ? dm_submit_bio+0x48/0x400
[16418.518574] ? submit_bio_checks+0x1ac/0x5a0
[16418.525207] __submit_bio+0x1a9/0x230
[16418.525210] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x29e/0x3c0
[16418.525223] submit_bio_noacct+0xa8/0x2b0
[16418.525226] submit_bio+0x4d/0x130
[16418.525238] __submit_bio+0x49/0x310 [f2fs]
[16418.525339] ? bio_add_page+0x6a/0x90
[16418.525344] f2fs_submit_page_bio+0x134/0x1f0 [f2fs]
[16418.525365] read_node_page+0x125/0x1b0 [f2fs]
[16418.525388] __get_node_page.part.0+0x58/0x3f0 [f2fs]
[16418.525409] __get_node_page+0x2f/0x60 [f2fs]
[16418.525431] f2fs_get_dnode_of_data+0x423/0x860 [f2fs]
[16418.525452] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
[16418.525458] ? __mod_memcg_state.part.0+0x2a/0x30
[16418.525465] ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x27/0x40
[16418.525467] ? __xa_set_mark+0x57/0x70
[16418.525472] f2fs_do_write_data_page+0x10e/0x7b0 [f2fs]
[16418.525493] f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x555/0x830 [f2fs]
[16418.525514] ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4e/0x90
[16418.525518] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
[16418.525523] f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x303/0x880 [f2fs]
[16418.525545] ? blk_flush_plug_list+0x47/0x100
[16418.525548] f2fs_write_data_pages+0xfd/0x320 [f2fs]
[16418.525569] do_writepages+0xd5/0x210
[16418.525648] filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x7d/0xc0
[16418.525655] filemap_fdatawrite+0x50/0x70
[16418.525658] f2fs_sync_dirty_inodes+0xa4/0x230 [f2fs]
[16418.525679] f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x16d/0x1720 [f2fs]
[16418.525699] ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x1c/0x160
[16418.525709] ? ttwu_do_activate+0x6d/0xd0
[16418.525711] ? __wait_for_common+0x11d/0x150
[16418.525715] kill_f2fs_super+0xca/0x100 [f2fs]
[16418.525733] deactivate_locked_super+0x3b/0xb0
[16418.525739] deactivate_super+0x40/0x50
[16418.525741] cleanup_mnt+0x139/0x190
[16418.525747] __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20
[16418.525749] task_work_run+0x6d/0xa0
[16418.525765] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1ad/0x1b0
[16418.525771] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x50
[16418.525774] do_syscall_64+0x48/0xc0
[16418.525776] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
Linux	Linux	3.8	5.18.4

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗

Release	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Debian 14	linux	5.18.5-1	—
Debian 13	linux	5.18.5-1	—
Debian 12	linux	5.18.5-1	—

Ubuntu