f2fs: fix to avoid uninit-value access in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer
Published May 8, 2026
5.5
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.16%
Description
syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520 f2fs_sanity_check_node_footer+0x374/0xa20 fs/f2fs/node.c:1520 f2fs_finish_read_bio+0xe1e/0x1d60 fs/f2fs/data.c:177 f2fs_read_end_io+0x6ab/0x2220 fs/f2fs/data.c:-1 bio_endio+0x1006/0x1160 block/bio.c:1792 submit_bio_noacct+0x533/0x2960 block/blk-core.c:891 submit_bio+0x57a/0x620 block/blk-core.c:926 blk_crypto_submit_bio include/linux/blk-crypto.h:203 [inline] f2fs_submit_read_bio+0x12c/0x360 fs/f2fs/data.c:557 f2fs_submit_page_bio+0xee2/0x1450 fs/f2fs/data.c:775 read_node_folio+0x384/0x4b0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1481 __get_node_folio+0x5db/0x15d0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1576 f2fs_get_inode_folio+0x40/0x50 fs/f2fs/node.c:1623 do_read_inode fs/f2fs/inode.c:425 [inline] f2fs_iget+0x1209/0x9380 fs/f2fs/inode.c:596 f2fs_fill_super+0x8f5a/0xb2e0 fs/f2fs/super.c:5184 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x6e6/0x920 fs/super.c:1694 get_tree_bdev+0x38/0x50 fs/super.c:1717 f2fs_get_tree+0x35/0x40 fs/f2fs/super.c:5436 vfs_get_tree+0xb3/0x5d0 fs/super.c:1754 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1193 [inline] do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3763 [inline] do_new_mount+0x885/0x1dd0 fs/namespace.c:3839 path_mount+0x7a2/0x20b0 fs/namespace.c:4159 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4172 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4361 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x704/0x7f0 fs/namespace.c:4338 __x64_sys_mount+0xe4/0x150 fs/namespace.c:4338 x64_sys_call+0x39f0/0x3ea0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x134/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The root cause is: in f2fs_finish_read_bio(), we may access uninit data in folio if we failed to read the data from device into folio, let's add a check condition to avoid such issue.
Affected products
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Affected
- ≥ , <
- ≥ , <
- ≥ , <
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Affected
- ≥ 6.18.13, < 6.18.25
- ≥ 6.19.3, < 6.20
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Affected
- 7.0
Unaffected
- ≥ 0, < 7.0
- ≥ 6.18.25, ≤ 6.18.*
- ≥ 7.0.2, ≤ 7.0.*
- 7.1
Default status is the baseline for the product. Each version can override it (patched versions can be marked unaffected).
- ≥ 6.18.13 · < 6.18.25
- ≥ 6.19.3 · < 7.0
- ≥ 7.0.1 · < 7.0.2
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
kernel-rt
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
kernel-rt
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
kernel
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
kernel-rt
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel-rt | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | kernel | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | kernel-rt | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
References (9)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-43349 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2468067 Issue Tracking
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-28633 Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59970b2586fef4b13e96527b9d232bed30b640cd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b9161a605e91d0987e2596a245dc1f21621b23f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a10b89343d41ceee1af0ec38d3a74e526c77fa09 Patch
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026050856-CVE-2026-43349-6690@gregkh/T
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43349
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43349
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