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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38626"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:00:34.867Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-01T16:05:25.352Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38626"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38626.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38626"
title: "f2fs: fix to trigger foreground gc during f2fs_map_blocks() in lfs mode"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to trigger foreground gc during f2fs_map_blocks() in lfs mode\n\nw/ \"mode=lfs\" mount option, generic/299 will cause system panic as below:\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2835!\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x6f4/0xc50\n f2fs_map_blocks+0x970/0x1550\n f2fs_iomap_begin+0xb2/0x1e0\n iomap_iter+0x1d6/0x430\n __iomap_dio_rw+0x208/0x9a0\n f2fs_file_write_iter+0x6b3/0xfa0\n aio_write+0x15d/0x2e0\n io_submit_one+0x55e/0xab0\n __x64_sys_io_submit+0xa5/0x230\n do_syscall_64+0x84/0x2f0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\nRIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x70f/0x720\n\nThe root cause of we run out-of-space is: in f2fs_map_blocks(), f2fs may\ntrigger foreground gc only if it allocates any physical block, it will be\na little bit later when there is multiple threads writing data w/\naio/dio/bufio method in parallel, since we always use OPU in lfs mode, so\nf2fs_map_blocks() does block allocations aggressively.\n\nIn order to fix this issue, let's give a chance to trigger foreground\ngc in prior to block allocation in f2fs_map_blocks()."
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