# CVE-2023-54182: f2fs: fix to check readonly condition correctly

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-30 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to check readonly condition correctly With below case, it can mount multi-device image w/ rw option, however one of secondary device is set as ro, later update will cause panic, so let's introduce f2fs_dev_is_readonly(), and check multi-devices rw status in f2fs_remount() w/ it in order to avoid such inconsistent mount status. mkfs.f2fs -c /dev/zram1 /dev/zram0 -f blockdev --setro /dev/zram1 mount -t f2fs dev/zram0 /mnt/f2fs mount: /mnt/f2fs: WARNING: source write-protected, mounted read-only. mount -t f2fs -o remount,rw mnt/f2fs dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/f2fs/file bs=1M count=8192 kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/inline.c:258! RIP: 0010:f2fs_write_inline_data+0x23e/0x2d0 [f2fs] Call Trace: f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x26b/0x9f0 [f2fs] f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x389/0xa60 [f2fs] __f2fs_write_data_pages+0x26b/0x2d0 [f2fs] f2fs_write_data_pages+0x2e/0x40 [f2fs] do_writepages+0xd3/0x1b0 __writeback_single_inode+0x5b/0x420 writeback_sb_inodes+0x236/0x5a0 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x56/0xf0 wb_writeback+0x2a3/0x490 wb_do_writeback+0x2b2/0x330 wb_workfn+0x6a/0x260 process_one_work+0x270/0x5e0 worker_thread+0x52/0x3e0 kthread+0xf4/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2759a59a4cc96af712084e9db7065c858c4fe9f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e05d63f8b48aad4613bd582c945bee41e2dd7255
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da8c535b28696017e5d1532d12ea78e836432d9e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d78dfefcde9d311284434560d69c0478c55a657e

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