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LIN1025-8485 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2026-23267

Created: Mar 19, 2026    Updated: Mar 23, 2026
Found In Version: 10.25.33.2
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 25
Component/s: Kernel

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  f2fs: fix IS_CHECKPOINTED flag inconsistency issue caused by concurrent atomic commit and checkpoint writes  During SPO tests, when mounting F2FS, an -EINVAL error was returned from f2fs_recover_inode_page. The issue occurred under the following scenario  Thread A                                     Thread B f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write  - f2fs_do_sync_file // atomic = true   - f2fs_fsync_node_pages     : last_folio = inode folio     : schedule before folio_lock(last_folio) f2fs_write_checkpoint                                               - block_operations// writeback last_folio                                               - schedule before f2fs_flush_nat_entries     : set_fsync_mark(last_folio, 1)     : set_dentry_mark(last_folio, 1)     : folio_mark_dirty(last_folio)     - __write_node_folio(last_folio)       : f2fs_down_read(&sbi->node_write)//block                                               - f2fs_flush_nat_entries                                                 : {struct nat_entry}->flag |= BIT(IS_CHECKPOINTED)                                               - unblock_operations                                                 : f2fs_up_write(&sbi->node_write)                                              f2fs_write_checkpoint//return       : f2fs_do_write_node_page() f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write//return                                              SPO  Thread A calls f2fs_need_dentry_mark(sbi, ino), and the last_folio has already been written once. However, the {struct nat_entry}->flag did not have the IS_CHECKPOINTED set, causing set_dentry_mark(last_folio, 1) and write last_folio again after Thread B finishes f2fs_write_checkpoint.  After SPO and reboot, it was detected that {struct node_info}->blk_addr was not NULL_ADDR because Thread B successfully write the checkpoint.  This issue only occurs in atomic write scenarios. For regular file fsync operations, the folio must be dirty. If block_operations->f2fs_sync_node_pages successfully submit the folio write, this path will not be executed. Otherwise, the f2fs_write_checkpoint will need to wait for the folio write submission to complete, as sbi->nr_pages[F2FS_DIRTY_NODES] > 0. Therefore, the situation where f2fs_need_dentry_mark checks that the {struct nat_entry}->flag /wo the IS_CHECKPOINTED flag, but the folio write has already been submitted, will not occur.  Therefore, for atomic file fsync, sbi->node_write should be acquired through __write_node_folio to ensure that the IS_CHECKPOINTED flag correctly indicates that the checkpoint write has been completed.