CVE-2026-46175

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix fsck inconsistency caused by FGGC of node block

During FGGC node block migration, fsck may incorrectly treat the

migrated node block as fsync-written data.

The reproduction scenario:

root@vm:/mnt/f2fs# seq 1 2048 | xargs -n 1 ./test_sync // write inline inode and sync

root@vm:/mnt/f2fs# rm -f 1

root@vm:/mnt/f2fs# sync

root@vm:/mnt/f2fs# f2fs_io gc_range // move data block in sync mode and not write CP

SPO, "fsck --dry-run" find inode has already checkpointed but still

with DENT_BIT_SHIFT set

The root cause is that GC does not clear the dentry mark and fsync mark

during node block migration, leading fsck to misinterpret them as

user-issued fsync writes.

In BGGC mode, node block migration is handled by f2fs_sync_node_pages(),

which guarantees the dentry and fsync marks are cleared before writing.

This patch move the set/clear of the fsync|dentry marks into

__write_node_folio to make the logic clearer,

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References