# CVE-2025-23132: f2fs: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots()

> A race condition in the Linux kernel F2FS filesystem can trigger a kernel warning, potentially leading to a denial of service.

- **Severity:** High 7.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 21 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-23132, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23132, GHSA-v4w6-p754-7g2j, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-23132, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-23132, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-23132, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-23132, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-23132, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23132

## What is CVE-2025-23132?

CVE-2025-23132 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 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: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots()

F2FS-fs (dm-59): checkpoint=enable has some unwritten data.

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8013 at fs/quota/dquot.c:691 dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
pc : dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
lr : f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4
Call trace:
dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4
f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3d4/0x9b0
f2fs_issue_checkpoint+0x1bc/0x2c0
f2fs_sync_fs+0x54/0x150
f2fs_do_sync_file+0x2f8/0x814
__f2fs_ioctl+0x1960/0x3244
f2fs_ioctl+0x54/0xe0
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xe4
invoke_syscall+0x58/0x114

checkpoint and f2fs_remount may race as below, resulting triggering warning
in dquot_writeback_dquots().

atomic write                                    remount
                                                - do_remount
                                                 - down_write(&sb->s_umount);
                                                  - f2fs_remount
- ioctl
 - f2fs_do_sync_file
  - f2fs_sync_fs
   - f2fs_write_checkpoint
    - block_operations
     - locked = down_read_trylock(&sbi->sb->s_umount)
       : fail to lock due to the write lock was held by remount
                                                 - up_write(&sb->s_umount);
     - f2fs_quota_sync
      - dquot_writeback_dquots
       - WARN_ON_ONCE(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount))
       : trigger warning because s_umount lock was unlocked by remount

If checkpoint comes from mount/umount/remount/freeze/quotactl, caller of
checkpoint has already held s_umount lock, calling dquot_writeback_dquots()
in the context should be safe.

So let's record task to sbi->umount_lock_holder, so that checkpoint can
know whether the lock has held in the context or not by checking current
w/ it.

In addition, in order to not misrepresent caller of checkpoint, we should
not allow to trigger async checkpoint for those callers: mount/umount/remount/
freeze/quotactl.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23132?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-23132?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-23132 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23132 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [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-2025-23132 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-23132 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 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-2025-23132 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-2025-23132/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23132/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23132
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23132
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-23132

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-23132/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.