{"id":"CVE-2023-53846","revision":"d9f46e36e3f849a2979082bbe0dda059","records":[{"revision":"d9f46e36e3f849a2979082bbe0dda059","observedAt":"2026-10-23T15:48:27.903+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2023-53846","aliases":[],"title":"f2fs: fix to do sanity check on direct node in truncate_dnode()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to do sanity check on direct node in truncate_dnode()\n\nsyzbot reports below bug:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0x122a/0x14c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:574\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff88802a25c000 by task syz-executor148/5000\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 5000 Comm: syz-executor148 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7-syzkaller-00041-ge660abd551f1 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023\nCall Trace:\n \n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3c0 mm/kasan/report.c:351\n print_report mm/kasan/report.c:462 [inline]\n kasan_report+0x11c/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:572\n f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0x122a/0x14c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:574\n truncate_dnode+0x229/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/node.c:944\n f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks+0x64b/0xde0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1154\n f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x4ac/0xf30 fs/f2fs/file.c:721\n f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x7b/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:749\n f2fs_truncate.part.0+0x4a5/0x630 fs/f2fs/file.c:799\n f2fs_truncate include/linux/fs.h:825 [inline]\n f2fs_setattr+0x1738/0x2090 fs/f2fs/file.c:1006\n notify_change+0xb2c/0x1180 fs/attr.c:483\n do_truncate+0x143/0x200 fs/open.c:66\n handle_truncate fs/namei.c:3295 [inline]\n do_open fs/namei.c:3640 [inline]\n path_openat+0x2083/0x2750 fs/namei.c:3791\n do_filp_open+0x1ba/0x410 fs/namei.c:3818\n do_sys_openat2+0x16d/0x4c0 fs/open.c:1356\n do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]\n __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1448 [inline]\n __se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1442 [inline]\n __x64_sys_creat+0xcd/0x120 fs/open.c:1442\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nThe root cause is, inodeA references inodeB via inodeB's ino, once inodeA\nis truncated, it calls truncate_dnode() to truncate data blocks in inodeB's\nnode page, it traverse mapping data from node->i.i_addr[0] to\nnode->i.i_addr[ADDRS_PER_BLOCK() - 1], result in out-of-boundary access.\n\nThis patch fixes to add sanity check on dnode page in truncate_dnode(),\nso that, it can help to avoid triggering such issue, and once it encounters\nsuch issue, it will record newly introduced ERROR_INVALID_NODE_REFERENCE\nerror into superblock, later fsck can detect such issue and try repairing.\n\nAlso, it removes f2fs_truncate_data_blocks() for cleanup due to the\nfunction has only one caller, and uses f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range()\ninstead.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2025-12-09T01:30:09.202+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-08-05T09:16:23.337+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n \"product\": \"Linux\",\n \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n \"defaultStatus\": \"unaffected\",\n \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n \"programFiles\": [\n \"fs/f2fs/f2fs.h\",\n \"fs/f2fs/file.c\",\n \"fs/f2fs/node.c\",\n \"include/linux/f2fs_fs.h\"\n ],\n \"versions\": [\n {\n \"version\": \"98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4\",\n \"lessThan\": \"af0f716ad3b039cab9d426da63a5ee6c88751185\",\n \"status\": \"affected\",\n \"versionType\": \"git\"\n },\n {\n \"version\": \"98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4\",\n \"lessThan\": \"a6ec83786ab9f13f25fb18166dee908845713a95\",\n \"status\": \"affected\",\n \"versionType\": \"git\"\n }\n ]\n }"},{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n \"product\": \"Linux\",\n \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n \"defaultStatus\": \"affected\",\n \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n \"programFiles\": [\n \"fs/f2fs/f2fs.h\",\n \"fs/f2fs/file.c\",\n \"fs/f2fs/node.c\",\n \"include/linux/f2fs_fs.h\"\n ],\n \"versions\": [\n {\n \"version\": \"3.8\",\n \"status\": \"affected\"\n },\n {\n \"version\": \"0\",\n \"lessThan\": \"3.8\",\n \"status\": \"unaffected\",\n \"versionType\": \"semver\"\n },\n {\n \"version\": \"6.4.10\",\n \"lessThanOrEqual\": \"6.4.*\",\n \"status\": \"unaffected\",\n \"versionType\": \"semver\"\n },\n {\n \"version\": \"6.5\",\n \"lessThanOrEqual\": \"*\",\n \"status\": \"unaffected\",\n \"versionType\": \"original_commit_for_fix\"\n }\n ]\n }"}],"metrics":[{"system":"CVSS 3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH"}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af0f716ad3b039cab9d426da63a5ee6c88751185","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6ec83786ab9f13f25fb18166dee908845713a95"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53846","license":"CVE Program Terms of Use","key":"cve-program:CVE-2023-53846","identifiers":["CVE-2023-53846"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}