# CVE-2023-53447: f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()

> A race condition in the Linux kernel's f2fs filesystem can cause a general protection fault and system crash during remount operations.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 18 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2023-53447, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53447, GHSA-2x2w-mp33-7x7m, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-53447, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2023-53447, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53447, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53447

## What is CVE-2023-53447?

CVE-2023-53447 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()

syzbot reports a bug as below:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000009: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0x69/0x2000 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4942
Call Trace:
 lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x520 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5691
 __raw_write_lock include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h:209 [inline]
 _raw_write_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:300
 __drop_extent_tree+0x3ac/0x660 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1100
 f2fs_drop_extent_tree+0x17/0x30 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1116
 f2fs_insert_range+0x2d5/0x3c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1664
 f2fs_fallocate+0x4e4/0x6d0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1838
 vfs_fallocate+0x54b/0x6b0 fs/open.c:324
 ksys_fallocate fs/open.c:347 [inline]
 __do_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:355 [inline]
 __se_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:353 [inline]
 __x64_sys_fallocate+0xbd/0x100 fs/open.c:353
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The root cause is race condition as below:
- since it tries to remount rw filesystem, so that do_remount won't
call sb_prepare_remount_readonly to block fallocate, there may be race
condition in between remount and fallocate.
- in f2fs_remount(), default_options() will reset mount option to default
one, and then update it based on result of parse_options(), so there is
a hole which race condition can happen.

Thread A			Thread B
- f2fs_fill_super
 - parse_options
  - clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)

- f2fs_remount
 - default_options
  - set_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)
				- f2fs_fallocate
				 - f2fs_insert_range
				  - f2fs_drop_extent_tree
				   - __drop_extent_tree
				    - __may_extent_tree
				     - test_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE) return true
				    - write_lock(&et->lock) access NULL pointer
 - parse_options
  - clear_opt(READ_EXTENT_CACHE)

Weakness: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53447?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-53447?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2023-53447 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53447 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53447 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-53447 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53447 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53447/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53447/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53447
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53447
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-53447

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