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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53447"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-18T16:04:22.649Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:10.920Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53447"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53447.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53447"
title: "f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()\n\nsyzbot reports a bug as below:\n\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000009: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nRIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x69/0x2000 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4942\nCall Trace:\n lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5691\n __raw_write_lock include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h:209 [inline]\n _raw_write_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:300\n __drop_extent_tree+0x3ac/0x660 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1100\n f2fs_drop_extent_tree+0x17/0x30 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1116\n f2fs_insert_range+0x2d5/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1664\n f2fs_fallocate+0x4e4/0x6d0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1838\n vfs_fallocate+0x54b/0x6b0 fs/open.c:324\n ksys_fallocate fs/open.c:347 [inline]\n __do_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:355 [inline]\n __se_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:353 [inline]\n __x64_sys_fallocate+0xbd/0x100 fs/open.c:353\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nThe root cause is race condition as below:\n- since it tries to remount rw filesystem, so that do_remount won't\ncall sb_prepare_remount_readonly to block fallocate, there may be race\ncondition in between remount and fallocate.\n- in f2fs_remount(), default_options() will reset mount option to default\none, and then update it based on result of parse_options(), so there is\na hole which race condition can happen.\n\nThread A\t\t\tThread B\n- f2fs_fill_super\n - parse_options\n  - clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)\n\n- f2fs_remount\n - default_options\n  - set_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)\n\t\t\t\t- f2fs_fallocate\n\t\t\t\t - f2fs_insert_range\n\t\t\t\t  - f2fs_drop_extent_tree\n\t\t\t\t   - __drop_extent_tree\n\t\t\t\t    - __may_extent_tree\n\t\t\t\t     - test_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE) return true\n\t\t\t\t    - write_lock(&et-\u003elock) access NULL pointer\n - parse_options\n  - clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"115557cc226a927924f2d7d1980ccbf6e3b3bb36"},{"version":"98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"458c15dfbce62c35fefd9ca637b20a051309c9f1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.8"},{"version":"6.4.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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