CVE-2023-53829

A kernel panic vulnerability was found in the F2FS filesystem in the Linux kernel. When an atomic file operation is aborted, the inode is not properly flushed, leaving it in a dirty state during eviction. This triggers f2fs_bug_on() in f2fs_evict_inode() when the FI_DIRTY_INODE flag is still set, causing a kernel panic. This can occur during filesystem unmount or process exit.

This is a kernel panic vulnerability in the F2FS filesystem that can be triggered when atomic write operations are aborted. The impact is limited to systems using F2FS filesystem with atomic file features.

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