# CVE-2023-54151: f2fs: Fix system crash due to lack of free space in LFS

> A local attacker can crash the Linux kernel by triggering a lack of free space during garbage collection in f2fs LFS mode.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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:** 24 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2023-54151, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54151, GHSA-jqh6-r2gj-x2xp, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-54151, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-54151, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54151

## What is CVE-2023-54151?

CVE-2023-54151 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 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: Fix system crash due to lack of free space in LFS

When f2fs tries to checkpoint during foreground gc in LFS mode, system
crash occurs due to lack of free space if the amount of dirty node and
dentry pages generated by data migration exceeds free space.
The reproduction sequence is as follows.

 - 20GiB capacity block device (null_blk)
 - format and mount with LFS mode
 - create a file and write 20,000MiB
 - 4k random write on full range of the file

 RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x48a/0x510 [f2fs]
 Code: 55 e7 f5 89 c0 48 0f af c3 48 8b 5d c0 48 c1 e8 20 83 c0 01 89 43 6c 48 83 c4 28 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b f0 41 80 4f 48 04 45 85 f6 0f 84 ba fd ff ff e9 ef fe ff ff
 RSP: 0018:ffff977bc397b218 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 00000000000027b9 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000000027c0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000027b9 RDI: ffff8c25ab4e74f8
 RBP: ffff977bc397b268 R08: 00000000000027b9 R09: ffff8c29e4a34b40
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff977bc397b0d8 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: ffff8c25b4dd81a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8c2f667f9000
 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c344ec80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000000c00055d000 CR3: 0000000e30810003 CR4: 00000000003706e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 allocate_segment_by_default+0x9c/0x110 [f2fs]
 f2fs_allocate_data_block+0x243/0xa30 [f2fs]
 ? __mod_lruvec_page_state+0xa0/0x150
 do_write_page+0x80/0x160 [f2fs]
 f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x32/0x50 [f2fs]
 __write_node_page+0x339/0x730 [f2fs]
 f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x5a6/0x780 [f2fs]
 block_operations+0x257/0x340 [f2fs]
 f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x102/0x1050 [f2fs]
 f2fs_gc+0x27c/0x630 [f2fs]
 ? folio_mark_dirty+0x36/0x70
 f2fs_balance_fs+0x16f/0x180 [f2fs]

This patch adds checking whether free sections are enough before checkpoint
during gc.

[Jaegeuk Kim: code clean-up]

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-54151?


## How do I fix CVE-2023-54151?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2023-54151 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54151 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-54151 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-54151 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 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-2023-54151 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux. 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-2023-54151/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54151/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54151
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54151
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-54151

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