# CVE-2024-56744: f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock in f2fs\_record\_stop\_reason()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.5
- Published: 2024-12-29 · Updated: 2026-05-23

## Affected

- Linux: from 6.4.4, fixed in 6.5
- Linux: 6.5

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock in f2fs_record_stop_reason() syzbot reports deadlock issue of f2fs as below: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.12.0-rc3-syzkaller-00087-gc964ced77262 #0 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ kswapd0/79 is trying to acquire lock: ffff888011824088 (&sbi->sb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: f2fs_down_write fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2199 [inline] ffff888011824088 (&sbi->sb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: f2fs_record_stop_reason+0x52/0x1d0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4068 but task is already holding lock: ffff88804bd92610 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: f2fs_evict_inode+0x662/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:842 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}: lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825 percpu_down_read include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:51 [inline] __sb_start_write include/linux/fs.h:1716 [inline] sb_start_intwrite+0x4d/0x1c0 include/linux/fs.h:1899 f2fs_evict_inode+0x662/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:842 evict+0x4e8/0x9b0 fs/inode.c:725 f2fs_evict_inode+0x1a4/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:807 evict+0x4e8/0x9b0 fs/inode.c:725 dispose_list fs/inode.c:774 [inline] prune_icache_sb+0x239/0x2f0 fs/inode.c:963 super_cache_scan+0x38c/0x4b0 fs/super.c:223 do_shrink_slab+0x701/0x1160 mm/shrinker.c:435 shrink_slab+0x1093/0x14d0 mm/shrinker.c:662 shrink_one+0x43b/0x850 mm/vmscan.c:4818 shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:4879 [inline] lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:4957 [inline] shrink_node+0x3799/0x3de0 mm/vmscan.c:5937 kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6765 [inline] balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:6957 [inline] kswapd+0x1ca3/0x3700 mm/vmscan.c:7226 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244 -> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}: lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825 __fs_reclaim_acquire mm/page_alloc.c:3834 [inline] fs_reclaim_acquire+0x88/0x130 mm/page_alloc.c:3848 might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:318 [inline] prepare_alloc_pages+0x147/0x5b0 mm/page_alloc.c:4493 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x16f/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4722 alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x680 mm/mempolicy.c:2265 alloc_pages_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2345 [inline] folio_alloc_noprof+0x128/0x180 mm/mempolicy.c:2352 filemap_alloc_folio_noprof+0xdf/0x500 mm/filemap.c:1010 do_read_cache_folio+0x2eb/0x850 mm/filemap.c:3787 read_mapping_folio include/linux/pagemap.h:1011 [inline] f2fs_commit_super+0x3c0/0x7d0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4032 f2fs_record_stop_reason+0x13b/0x1d0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4079 f2fs_handle_critical_error+0x2ac/0x5c0 fs/f2fs/super.c:4174 f2fs_write_inode+0x35f/0x4d0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:785 write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1503 [inline] __writeback_single_inode+0x711/0x10d0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1723 writeback_single_inode+0x1f3/0x660 fs/fs-writeback.c:1779 sync_inode_metadata+0xc4/0x120 fs/fs-writeback.c:2849 f2fs_release_file+0xa8/0x100 fs/f2fs/file.c:1941 __fput+0x23f/0x880 fs/file_table.c:431 task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:228 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:328 [inline] __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x168/0x370 kernel/entry/common.c:218 do_syscall_64+0x100/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:89 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f ---truncated---

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecf4e6782b01fd578b565b3dd2be7bb0ac91082e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1539a088b108996bcdaddb7775070b5163b14233
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/801092a2c9c251ef6a8678fcb8fcc1220474a697
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f10a890308a7cd8794e21f646f09827c6cb4bf5d

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