Vulnerability · Published Sep 18, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2023-53447f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()

Medium 4.7

In plain English

A medium-severity race condition in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 1% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.7Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 98.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount() syzbot reports a bug as below: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000009: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x69/0x2000 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4942 Call Trace: lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5691 __raw_write_lock include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h:209 [inline] _raw_write_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:300 __drop_extent_tree+0x3ac/0x660 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1100 f2fs_drop_extent_tree+0x17/0x30 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1116 f2fs_insert_range+0x2d5/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1664 f2fs_fallocate+0x4e4/0x6d0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1838 vfs_fallocate+0x54b/0x6b0 fs/open.c:324 ksys_fallocate fs/open.c:347 [inline] __do_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:355 [inline] __se_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:353 [inline] __x64_sys_fallocate+0xbd/0x100 fs/open.c:353 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd The root cause is race condition as below: - since it tries to remount rw filesystem, so that do_remount won't call sb_prepare_remount_readonly to block fallocate, there may be race condition in between remount and fallocate. - in f2fs_remount(), default_options() will reset mount option to default one, and then update it based on result of parse_options(), so there is a hole which race condition can happen. Thread A Thread B - f2fs_fill_super - parse_options - clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE) - f2fs_remount - default_options - set_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE) - f2fs_fallocate - f2fs_insert_range - f2fs_drop_extent_tree - __drop_extent_tree - __may_extent_tree - test_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE) return true - write_lock(&et->lock) access NULL pointer - parse_options - clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linuxno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2023-53447
Debian:13linux6.4.11-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53447
Debian:14linux6.4.11-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeopno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotgno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegrano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 – before f6464b3c31344af4964443dbbcb4596ac9b4651998e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 – before 115557cc226a927924f2d7d1980ccbf6e3b3bb3698e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4 – before 458c15dfbce62c35fefd9ca637b20a051309c9f1
Linux Linux 3.8

Weakness: CWE-362 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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