FKIE_CVE-2026-53017
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-24 17:17 - Updated: 2026-07-15 13:54
Severity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix data loss caused by incorrect use of nat_entry flag
Data loss can occur when fsync is performed on a newly created file
(before any checkpoint has been written) concurrently with a checkpoint
operation. 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_flush_nat_entries
- f2fs_fsync_node_pages // no dirty node
- f2fs_need_inode_block_update // return false
SPO and lost 'file A'
f2fs_flush_nat_entries() sets the IS_CHECKPOINTED and HAS_LAST_FSYNC
flags for the nat_entry, but this does not mean that the checkpoint has
actually completed successfully. However, f2fs_need_inode_block_update()
checks these flags and incorrectly assumes that the checkpoint has
finished.
The root cause is that the semantics of IS_CHECKPOINTED and
HAS_LAST_FSYNC are only guaranteed after the checkpoint write fully
completes.
This patch modifies f2fs_need_inode_block_update() to acquire the
sbi->node_write lock before reading the nat_entry flags, ensuring that
once IS_CHECKPOINTED and HAS_LAST_FSYNC are observed to be set, the
checkpoint operation has already completed.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * |
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix data loss caused by incorrect use of nat_entry flag\n\nData loss can occur when fsync is performed on a newly created file\n(before any checkpoint has been written) concurrently with a checkpoint\noperation. The scenario is as follows:\n\ncreate \u0026 write \u0026 fsync \u0027file A\u0027 write checkpoint\n- f2fs_do_sync_file // inline inode\n - f2fs_write_inode // inode folio is dirty\n - f2fs_write_checkpoint\n - f2fs_flush_merged_writes\n - f2fs_sync_node_pages\n - f2fs_flush_nat_entries\n - f2fs_fsync_node_pages // no dirty node\n - f2fs_need_inode_block_update // return false\n SPO and lost \u0027file A\u0027\n\nf2fs_flush_nat_entries() sets the IS_CHECKPOINTED and HAS_LAST_FSYNC\nflags for the nat_entry, but this does not mean that the checkpoint has\nactually completed successfully. However, f2fs_need_inode_block_update()\nchecks these flags and incorrectly assumes that the checkpoint has\nfinished.\n\nThe root cause is that the semantics of IS_CHECKPOINTED and\nHAS_LAST_FSYNC are only guaranteed after the checkpoint write fully\ncompletes.\n\nThis patch modifies f2fs_need_inode_block_update() to acquire the\nsbi-\u003enode_write lock before reading the nat_entry flags, ensuring that\nonce IS_CHECKPOINTED and HAS_LAST_FSYNC are observed to be set, the\ncheckpoint operation has already completed."
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"id": "CVE-2026-53017",
"lastModified": "2026-07-15T13:54:57.097",
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"published": "2026-06-24T17:17:13.020",
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