CVE-2026-53368

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-53368

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix fsck inconsistency caused by incorrect nat_entry flag usage

f2fs_need_dentry_mark() reads nat_entry flags without mutual exclusion

with the checkpoint path, which can result in an incorrect inode block

marking state. The scenario is as follows:

create & write & fsync 'file A' write checkpoint

- f2fs_do_sync_file // inline inode

- f2fs_write_inode // inode folio is dirty

- f2fs_write_checkpoint

- f2fs_flush_merged_writes

- f2fs_sync_node_pages

- f2fs_fsync_node_pages // no dirty node

- f2fs_need_inode_block_update // return true

- f2fs_fsync_node_pages // inode dirtied

- f2fs_need_dentry_mark //return true

- f2fs_flush_nat_entries

- f2fs_write_checkpoint end

- __write_node_folio // inode with DENT_BIT_SHIFT set

SPO, "fsck --dry-run" find inode has already checkpointed but still

with DENT_BIT_SHIFT set

The state observed by f2fs_need_dentry_mark() can differ from the state

observed in __write_node_folio() after acquiring sbi->node_write. The

root cause is that the semantics of IS_CHECKPOINTED and

HAS_FSYNCED_INODE are only guaranteed after the checkpoint write has

fully completed.

This patch moves set_dentry_mark() into __write_node_folio() and

protects it with the sbi->node_write lock. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References