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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-71065" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:31:21.235Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:54:03.528Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z" 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-2025-71065" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71065.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71065" title: "f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock\n\nAs Jiaming Zhang and syzbot reported, there is potential deadlock in\nf2fs as below:\n\nChain exists of:\n &sbi-\u003ecp_rwsem --\u003e fs_reclaim --\u003e sb_internal#2\n\n Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n\n CPU0 CPU1\n ---- ----\n rlock(sb_internal#2);\n lock(fs_reclaim);\n lock(sb_internal#2);\n rlock(&sbi-\u003ecp_rwsem);\n\n *** DEADLOCK ***\n\n3 locks held by kswapd0/73:\n #0: ffffffff8e247a40 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:7015 [inline]\n #0: ffffffff8e247a40 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: kswapd+0x951/0x2800 mm/vmscan.c:7389\n #1: ffff8880118400e0 (&type-\u003es_umount_key#50){.+.+}-{4:4}, at: super_trylock_shared fs/super.c:562 [inline]\n #1: ffff8880118400e0 (&type-\u003es_umount_key#50){.+.+}-{4:4}, at: super_cache_scan+0x91/0x4b0 fs/super.c:197\n #2: ffff888011840610 (sb_internal#2){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: f2fs_evict_inode+0x8d9/0x1b60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:890\n\nstack backtrace:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 73 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n print_circular_bug+0x2ee/0x310 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2043\n check_noncircular+0x134/0x160 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2175\n check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3165 [inline]\n check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3284 [inline]\n validate_chain+0xb9b/0x2140 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3908\n __lock_acquire+0xab9/0xd20 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5237\n lock_acquire+0x120/0x360 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5868\n down_read+0x46/0x2e0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1537\n f2fs_down_read fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2278 [inline]\n f2fs_lock_op fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2357 [inline]\n f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x21c/0x10c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:791\n f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x10a/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:867\n f2fs_truncate+0x489/0x7c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:925\n f2fs_evict_inode+0x9f2/0x1b60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:897\n evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810\n f2fs_evict_inode+0x1dc/0x1b60 fs/f2fs/inode.c:853\n evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810\n dispose_list fs/inode.c:852 [inline]\n prune_icache_sb+0x21b/0x2c0 fs/inode.c:1000\n super_cache_scan+0x39b/0x4b0 fs/super.c:224\n do_shrink_slab+0x6ef/0x1110 mm/shrinker.c:437\n shrink_slab_memcg mm/shrinker.c:550 [inline]\n shrink_slab+0x7ef/0x10d0 mm/shrinker.c:628\n shrink_one+0x28a/0x7c0 mm/vmscan.c:4955\n shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:5016 [inline]\n lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:5094 [inline]\n shrink_node+0x315d/0x3780 mm/vmscan.c:6081\n kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6941 [inline]\n balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:7124 [inline]\n kswapd+0x147c/0x2800 mm/vmscan.c:7389\n kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463\n ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe root cause is deadlock among four locks as below:\n\nkswapd\n- fs_reclaim\t\t\t\t--- Lock A\n - shrink_one\n - evict\n - f2fs_evict_inode\n - sb_start_intwrite\t\t\t--- Lock B\n\n- iput\n - evict\n - f2fs_evict_inode\n - sb_start_intwrite\t\t\t--- Lock B\n - f2fs_truncate\n - f2fs_truncate_blocks\n - f2fs_do_truncate_blocks\n - f2fs_lock_op\t\t\t--- Lock C\n\nioctl\n- f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write\n - f2fs_lock_op\t\t\t\t--- Lock C\n - __f2fs_commit_atomic_write\n - __replace_atomic_write_block\n - f2fs_get_dnode_of_data\n - __get_node_folio\n - f2fs_check_nid_range\n - f2fs_handle_error\n - f2fs_record_errors\n - f2fs_down_write\t\t--- Lock D\n\nopen\n- do_open\n - do_truncate\n - security_inode_need_killpriv\n - f2fs_getxattr\n - lookup_all_xattrs\n - f2fs_handle_error\n - f2fs_record_errors\n - f2fs_down_write\t\t--- Lock D\n - f2fs_commit_super\n - read_mapping_folio\n - filemap_alloc_folio_noprof\n - prepare_alloc_pages\n - fs_reclaim_acquire\t--- Lock A\n\nIn order to a\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"95fa90c9e5a7f14c2497d5b032544478c9377c3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8bd6dff8b801abaa362272894bda795bf0cf1307"},{"version":"95fa90c9e5a7f14c2497d5b032544478c9377c3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c3bab5c6261aa22c561ef56b7365959a90e7d91"},{"version":"95fa90c9e5a7f14c2497d5b032544478c9377c3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86a85a7b622e6e8dba69810257733ce5eab5ed55"},{"version":"95fa90c9e5a7f14c2497d5b032544478c9377c3a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ca8b201f28547e28343a6f00a6e91fa8c09572fe"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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