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CVE-2025-40137
f2fs: fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate()
Published 2025-11-12 (11 months ago) by the Linux kernel CNA. Subsystem fs/f2fs. Debian urgency: not yet assigned.
What to do, per Debian release
Debian's own status for CVE-2025-40137 in every release this site tracks, and what each one means in practice. Every status below is the one the Debian Security Team publishes for this CVE. source
| Release | Status | Version | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 12bookworm | vulnerable | 6.1.190-1 | No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series bookworm tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for bookworm have historically landed a median of 23 days after publication. |
| Debian 13trixie | fixed | 6.12.57-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.12.57-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian 14forky | fixed | 6.17.6-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.17.6-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian unstablesid | fixed | 6.17.6-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.17.6-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
The vulnerability
What the bug is
syzbot reports a bug as below: loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 40427 F2FS-fs (loop0): Wrong SSA boundary, start(3584) end(4096) blocks(3072) F2FS-fs (loop0): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock F2FS-fs (loop0): invalid crc value F2FS-fs (loop0): f2fs_convert_inline_folio: corrupted inline inode ino=3, i_addr[0]:0x1601, run fsck to fix. ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:753! RIP: 0010:clear_inode+0x169/0x190 fs/inode.c:753 Call Trace: <TASK> evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810 f2fs_fill_super+0x5612/0x6fa0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5047 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1692 vfs_get_tree+0x8f/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1815 do_new_mount+0x2a2/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3808 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4136 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4347 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x317/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4324 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f During f2fs_evict_inode(), clear_inode() detects that we missed to truncate all page cache before destorying inode, that is because in below path, we will create page #0 in cache, but missed to drop it in error path, let's fix it. - evict - f2fs_evict_inode - f2fs_truncate - f2fs_convert_inline_inode - f2fs_grab_cache_folio : create page #0 in cache - f2fs_convert_inline_folio : sanity check failed, return -EFSCORRUPTED - clear_inode detects that inode->i_data.nrpages is not zero
Where it lives
The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.
fs/f2fs/file.c
- What this is
- F2FS FILE SYSTEMMAINTAINERS section matched on fs/f2fs/ · linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net · Maintained
- Kernel module
- f2fs
Check it on the machine
grep -w CONFIG_F2FS_FS /boot/config-$(uname -r)Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.
lsmod | grep -w f2fsPrints a line if that module is loaded right now, and nothing if it is not. One that is not loaded can still be loaded later by anything that needs it.
Show whether Debian builds this, per release
Debian builds this, but not on every flavour. At least one release below builds the code on some of its kernel flavours and not on others, so the answer depends on the architecture and flavour installed.
- bookworm, trixie, forky, sidMnot built on amd64/cloud-amd64, arm64/cloud-arm64
- M
- a module where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it
- Build switch
- CONFIG_F2FS_FS
From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages
Signals
- Published
- 2025-11-12 (11 months ago)source
- CVSS
- no vector published, unrated
- Attack vector
- not published
- EPSS
- 0.21%, higher than 10.9% of all CVEssource
- CISA KEV
- not listedthe KEV catalogue
- Debian urgency
- not yet assignedsource
- Subsystem
- fs/f2fs
Upstream fixes
The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source
| Introduced | Fixed in | Commit |
|---|---|---|
| 3.19 | 6.6.112 | 83a8e4efea02 |
| 3.19 | 6.12.53 | a7b7ebdd7045 |
| 3.19 | 6.17.3 | 3b0c8908faa1 |
| 3.19 | 6.18 | 9251a9e6e871 |
Why the CNA scored it this way
The kernel CNA published no CVSS vector and no reasoning for CVE-2025-40137, which is why it is shown as unrated rather than given an invented score. 6,405 of the 20,413 CVEs here carry reasoning; this is not one of them.