Linux Kernel up to 6.18.38/7.1.2 F2fs fs/f2fs/file.c f2fs_get_node_folio_ra denial of service

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.38/7.1.2. This impacts the function f2fs_get_node_folio_ra of the file fs/f2fs/file.c of the component F2fs. Executing a manipulation can lead to denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-63819. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.18.38/7.1.2 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function f2fs_get_node_folio_ra of the file fs/f2fs/file.c of the component F2fs. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to do sanity check on f2fs_get_node_folio_ra() kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/file.c:845! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5336 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x1115/0x1140 fs/f2fs/file.c:845 Code: fc fc 90 0f 0b e8 8b 9d 9a fd 90 0f 0b e8 83 9d 9a fd 48 89 df 48 c7 c6 60 d1 1a 8c e8 54 f1 fc fc 90 0f 0b e8 6c 9d 9a fd 90 <0f> 0b e8 64 9d 9a fd 90 0f 0b 90 e9 93 fd ff ff e8 56 9d 9a fd 90 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e4474c0 EFLAGS: 00010283 RAX: ffffffff842b1d34 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000100000 RDX: ffffc9000f03a000 RSI: 0000000000035503 RDI: 0000000000035504 RBP: ffffc9000e447608 R08: ffff8880123b0000 R09: 0000000000000002 R10: 00000000fffffffe R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 1ffff92001c88ea0 R15: 00000000ffff039c FS: 00007f7e02ee36c0(0000) GS:ffff88808c887000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007ff0305c4000 CR3: 0000000012d4c000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0 Call Trace: <TASK> f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x10a/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:882 f2fs_truncate+0x471/0x7c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:940 f2fs_evict_inode+0xa3f/0x1ac0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:907 evict+0x61e/0xb10 fs/inode.c:841 f2fs_fill_super+0x5f43/0x78f0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5224 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x431/0x4f0 fs/super.c:1694 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1754 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline] do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3758 [inline] do_new_mount+0x341/0xd30 fs/namespace.c:3834 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4167 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4383 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4360 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f count = ADDRS_PER_PAGE(dn.node_folio, inode); count -= dn.ofs_in_node; f2fs_bug_on(sbi, count < 0); The fuzz test will trigger above bug_on in f2fs. The root cause should be: in the corrupted inode, there is a direct node which has the same ino and nid in its footer, so in f2fs_do_truncate_blocks(), after f2fs_get_dnode_of_data() finds such dnode: 1) ADDRS_PER_PAGE(dn.node_folio, inode) will return 923 2) once dn.ofs_in_node points to addr[923, 1017] Then it will trigger the system panic. Let's introduce NODE_TYPE_NON_IXNODE to indicate current node should not be an inode or xattr node, and then use it in below path to detect inconsistent node chain in inode mapping table: - f2fs_do_truncate_blocks - f2fs_get_dnode_of_data - f2fs_get_node_folio_ra - __get_node_folio - f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer - case NODE_TYPE_NON_IXNODE -> check whether it is inode|xnode

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-63819 since 07/19/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

Upgrading to version 6.18.39, 7.1.3 or 7.2-rc1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.18.0
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• 6.18.38
• 7.1.0
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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