CVE-2023-53447

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53447
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53447.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53447
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-18T16:04:22Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:15Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
f2fs: don't reset unchangable mount option in f2fs_remount()
Details

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)

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53447.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
98e4da8ca301e062d79ae168c67e56f3c3de3ce4
Fixed
115557cc226a927924f2d7d1980ccbf6e3b3bb36
Fixed
458c15dfbce62c35fefd9ca637b20a051309c9f1

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53447.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.8.0
Fixed
6.4.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53447.json"