[PATCH 6.6 156/166] f2fs: fix use-after-free of sbi in f2fs_compress_write_end_io()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-24T13:40:40Z

From: George Saad <geoo115@gmail.com>

commit 39d4ee19c1e7d753dd655aebee632271b171f43a upstream.

In f2fs_compress_write_end_io(), dec_page_count(sbi, type) can bring
the F2FS_WB_CP_DATA counter to zero, unblocking
f2fs_wait_on_all_pages() in f2fs_put_super() on a concurrent unmount
CPU. The unmount path then proceeds to call
f2fs_destroy_page_array_cache(sbi), which destroys
sbi->page_array_slab via kmem_cache_destroy(), and eventually
kfree(sbi). Meanwhile, the bio completion callback is still executing:
when it reaches page_array_free(sbi, ...), it dereferences
sbi->page_array_slab — a destroyed slab cache — to call
kmem_cache_free(), causing a use-after-free.

This is the same class of bug as CVE-2026-23234 (which fixed the
equivalent race in f2fs_write_end_io() in data.c), but in the
compressed writeback completion path that was not covered by that fix.

Fix this by moving dec_page_count() to after page_array_free(), so
that all sbi accesses complete before the counter decrement that can
unblock unmount. For non-last folios (where atomic_dec_return on
cic->pending_pages is nonzero), dec_page_count is called immediately
before returning — page_array_free is not reached on this path, so
there is no post-decrement sbi access. For the last folio,
page_array_free runs while the F2FS_WB_CP_DATA counter is still
nonzero (this folio has not yet decremented it), keeping sbi alive,
and dec_page_count runs as the final operation.

Fixes: 4c8ff7095bef ("f2fs: support data compression")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: George Saad <geoo115@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/f2fs/compress.c | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/f2fs/compress.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/compress.c
@@ -1434,10 +1434,10 @@ void f2fs_compress_write_end_io(struct b

f2fs_compress_free_page(page);

- dec_page_count(sbi, type);
-
- if (atomic_dec_return(&cic->pending_pages))
+ if (atomic_dec_return(&cic->pending_pages)) {
+ dec_page_count(sbi, type);
return;
+ }

for (i = 0; i < cic->nr_rpages; i++) {
WARN_ON(!cic->rpages[i]);
@@ -1447,6 +1447,14 @@ void f2fs_compress_write_end_io(struct b

page_array_free(sbi, cic->rpages, cic->nr_rpages);
kmem_cache_free(cic_entry_slab, cic);
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure dec_page_count() is the last access to sbi.
+ * Once it drops the F2FS_WB_CP_DATA counter to zero, the
+ * unmount thread can proceed to destroy sbi and
+ * sbi->page_array_slab.
+ */
+ dec_page_count(sbi, type);
}

static int f2fs_write_raw_pages(struct compress_ctx *cc,