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f2fs: fix to avoid mapping wrong physical block for swapfile

Published Mar 4, 2026 · Updated May 23, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

f2fs: fix to avoid mapping wrong physical block for swapfile

Xiaolong Guo reported a f2fs bug in bugzilla [1]

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220951

Quoted:

"When using stress-ng's swap stress test on F2FS filesystem with kernel 6.6+,
the system experiences data corruption leading to either:
1 dm-verity corruption errors and device reboot
2 F2FS node corruption errors and boot hangs

The issue occurs specifically when:
1 Using F2FS filesystem (ext4 is unaffected)
2 Swapfile size is less than F2FS section size (2MB)
3 Swapfile has fragmented physical layout (multiple non-contiguous extents)
4 Kernel version is 6.6+ (6.1 is unaffected)

The root cause is in check_swap_activate() function in fs/f2fs/data.c. When the
first extent of a small swapfile (< 2MB) is not aligned to section boundaries,
the function incorrectly treats it as the last extent, failing to map
subsequent extents. This results in incorrect swap_extent creation where only
the first extent is mapped, causing subsequent swap writes to overwrite wrong
physical locations (other files' data).

Steps to Reproduce
1 Setup a device with F2FS-formatted userdata partition
2 Compile stress-ng from https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng
3 Run swap stress test: (Android devices)
adb shell "cd /data/stressng; ./stress-ng-64 --metrics-brief --timeout 60
--swap 0"

Log:
1 Ftrace shows in kernel 6.6, only first extent is mapped during second
f2fs_map_blocks call in check_swap_activate():
stress-ng-swap-8990: f2fs_map_blocks: ino=11002, file offset=0, start
blkaddr=0x43143, len=0x1
(Only 4KB mapped, not the full swapfile)
2 in kernel 6.1, both extents are correctly mapped:
stress-ng-swap-5966: f2fs_map_blocks: ino=28011, file offset=0, start
blkaddr=0x13cd4, len=0x1
stress-ng-swap-5966: f2fs_map_blocks: ino=28011, file offset=1, start
blkaddr=0x60c84b, len=0xff

The problematic code is in check_swap_activate():
if ((pblock - SM_I(sbi)->main_blkaddr) % blks_per_sec ||
nr_pblocks % blks_per_sec ||
!f2fs_valid_pinned_area(sbi, pblock)) {
bool last_extent = false;

not_aligned++;

nr_pblocks = roundup(nr_pblocks, blks_per_sec);
if (cur_lblock + nr_pblocks > sis->max)
nr_pblocks -= blks_per_sec;

/* this extent is last one */
if (!nr_pblocks) {
nr_pblocks = last_lblock - cur_lblock;
last_extent = true;
}

ret = f2fs_migrate_blocks(inode, cur_lblock, nr_pblocks);
if (ret) {
if (ret == -ENOENT)
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}

if (!last_extent)
goto retry;
}

When the first extent is unaligned and roundup(nr_pblocks, blks_per_sec)
exceeds sis->max, we subtract blks_per_sec resulting in nr_pblocks = 0. The
code then incorrectly assumes this is the last extent, sets nr_pblocks =
last_lblock - cur_lblock (entire swapfile), and performs migration. After
migration, it doesn't retry mapping, so subsequent extents are never processed.
"

In order to fix this issue, we need to lookup block mapping info after
we migrate all blocks in the tail of swapfile.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.6.33 – < 6.6.127, 6.9 6.6.127

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.18.13-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.74-2 DSA-6162-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 24.04 LTS linux-bluefield 6.8.0-1026.30 —
Ubuntu 25.10 linux +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-134.134 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1060.63 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1063.71 USN-8606-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 6.8.0-1062.69 USN-8607-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1039.42 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp 6.8.0-1063.69 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1058.64 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1045.48 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1060.61 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-134.134.1 USN-8497-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1058.61 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1058.61.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1029.30 USN-8498-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1057.58 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1060.64 USN-8492-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1032.33 USN-8499-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1060.63~22.04.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1063.71~22.04.1 USN-8606-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-6.8 6.8.0-1062.69~22.04.1 USN-8609-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1063.69~22.04.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-136.136~22.04.1 USN-8619-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1060.61~22.04.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-134.134.1~22.04.1 USN-8497-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1058.61~22.04.1 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1057.58~22.04.1 USN-8492-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-134.134~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2049.50 USN-8492-3
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1055.56 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1055.56~22.04.1 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 6.8.0-1060.63+fips1 USN-8492-1
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 6.8.0-1062.69+fips1 USN-8492-5
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-134.134+fips1 USN-8492-5
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 6.8.0-1063.69+fips1 USN-8492-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source 6.19.8-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10387-1

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-200.74.27.el10uek ELSA-2026-50160

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