Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to truncate first...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate()
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.
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kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:753!
RIP: 0010:clear_inode+0x169/0x190 fs/inode.c:753
Call Trace:
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
Impact
Affected versions
Security releases
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- What is CVE-2025-40137? CVE-2025-40137 is a unknown-severity security vulnerability. No fixed version is listed yet.
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- What actually determines whether CVE-2025-40137 is exploitable, and how bad it is? Exploitability and impact are not fixed properties of a CVE. They depend on runtime truth: whether the vulnerable code is present, reachable, and actually executes in your application. A high CVSS score on a dependency that never runs is not the same as real risk. Kodem, an Intelligent Application Security platform, uses runtime intelligence to reveal which vulnerabilities actually execute in production, so teams prioritize the ones that genuinely matter.