CVE-2023-53511

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53511
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53511.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53511
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-01T11:46:00Z
Modified
2025-10-15T07:39:06.252924Z
Summary
io_uring: fix fget leak when fs don't support nowait buffered read
Details

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

io_uring: fix fget leak when fs don't support nowait buffered read

Heming reported a BUG when using io_uring doing link-cp on ocfs2. [1]

Do the following steps can reproduce this BUG: mount -t ocfs2 /dev/vdc /mnt/ocfs2 cp testfile /mnt/ocfs2/ ./link-cp /mnt/ocfs2/testfile /mnt/ocfs2/testfile.1 umount /mnt/ocfs2

Then umount will fail, and it outputs: umount: /mnt/ocfs2: target is busy.

While tracing umount, it blames mntgetcount() not return as expected. Do a deep investigation for fget()/fput() on related code flow, I've finally found that fget() leaks since ocfs2 doesn't support nowait buffered read.

ioissuesqe |-ioassignfile // do fget() first |-ioread |-ioiterdoread |-ocfs2filereaditer // return -EOPNOTSUPP |-kiocbdone |-iorwdone |-_iocompleterwcommon // set REQFREISSUE |-ioresubmitprep |-ioreqprep_async // override req->file, leak happens

This was introduced by commit a196c78b5443 in v5.18. Fix it by don't re-assign req->file if it has already been assigned.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/ocfs2-devel/ab580a75-91c8-d68a-3455-40361be1bfa8@linux.alibaba.com/T/#t

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
a196c78b5443fc61af2c0490213b9d125482cbd1
Fixed
75a499fc9d66a32271e2b3e4ca71156e8ad3b484
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a196c78b5443fc61af2c0490213b9d125482cbd1
Fixed
10fb2e16ee6ffaf1716b9e90d007e6b300bfa457
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
a196c78b5443fc61af2c0490213b9d125482cbd1
Fixed
54aa7f2330b82884f4a1afce0220add6e8312f8b
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
cef27a7d36026bd3c86f4fdfb4611ebbe2814af4

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.10.1
v5.10.10
v5.10.11
v5.10.12
v5.10.13
v5.10.14
v5.10.15
v5.10.16
v5.10.17
v5.10.18
v5.10.19
v5.10.2
v5.10.3
v5.10.4
v5.10.5
v5.10.6
v5.10.7
v5.10.8
v5.10.9
v5.11.1
v5.11.10
v5.11.11
v5.11.12
v5.11.13
v5.11.14
v5.11.15
v5.11.16
v5.11.17
v5.11.18
v5.11.19
v5.11.2
v5.11.20
v5.11.21
v5.11.3
v5.11.4
v5.11.5
v5.11.6
v5.11.7
v5.11.8
v5.11.9
v5.12.1
v5.12.10
v5.12.11
v5.12.12
v5.12.13
v5.12.14
v5.12.15
v5.12.16
v5.12.17
v5.12.18
v5.12.19
v5.12.2
v5.12.3
v5.12.4
v5.12.5
v5.12.6
v5.12.7
v5.12.8
v5.12.9
v5.13.1
v5.13.10
v5.13.11
v5.13.12
v5.13.13
v5.13.14
v5.13.15
v5.13.16
v5.13.17
v5.13.18
v5.13.2
v5.13.3
v5.13.4
v5.13.5
v5.13.6
v5.13.7
v5.13.8
v5.13.9
v5.14.1
v5.14.10
v5.14.11
v5.14.12
v5.14.13
v5.14.14
v5.14.15
v5.14.16
v5.14.17
v5.14.18
v5.14.19
v5.14.2
v5.14.20
v5.14.3
v5.14.4
v5.14.5
v5.14.6
v5.14.7
v5.14.8
v5.14.9
v5.15.1
v5.15.10
v5.15.11
v5.15.12
v5.15.13
v5.15.14
v5.15.15
v5.15.16
v5.15.17
v5.15.18
v5.15.19
v5.15.2
v5.15.3
v5.15.4
v5.15.5
v5.15.6
v5.15.7
v5.15.8
v5.15.9
v5.16.1
v5.16.10
v5.16.11
v5.16.12
v5.16.13
v5.16.14
v5.16.15
v5.16.16
v5.16.17
v5.16.18
v5.16.19
v5.16.2
v5.16.20
v5.16.3
v5.16.4
v5.16.5
v5.16.6
v5.16.7
v5.16.8
v5.16.9
v5.17.10
v5.17.11
v5.17.12
v5.17.13
v5.17.14
v5.17.15
v5.17.9
v5.18
v5.18-rc1
v5.18-rc2
v5.18-rc3
v5.18-rc4
v5.18-rc5
v5.18-rc6
v5.18-rc7
v5.18.1
v5.18.10
v5.18.11
v5.18.12
v5.18.13
v5.18.14
v5.18.15
v5.18.16
v5.18.17
v5.18.18
v5.18.19
v5.18.2
v5.18.3
v5.18.4
v5.18.5
v5.18.6
v5.18.7
v5.18.8
v5.18.9
v5.19
v5.19-rc1
v5.19-rc2
v5.19-rc3
v5.19-rc4
v5.19-rc5
v5.19-rc6
v5.19-rc7
v5.19-rc8
v5.19.1
v5.19.10
v5.19.11
v5.19.12
v5.19.13
v5.19.14
v5.19.15
v5.19.16
v5.19.2
v5.19.3
v5.19.4
v5.19.5
v5.19.6
v5.19.7
v5.19.8
v5.19.9
v5.6.1
v5.6.10
v5.6.11
v5.6.12
v5.6.13
v5.6.14
v5.6.15
v5.6.16
v5.6.17
v5.6.18
v5.6.2
v5.6.3
v5.6.4
v5.6.5
v5.6.6
v5.6.7
v5.6.8
v5.6.9
v5.7.1
v5.7.10
v5.7.11
v5.7.12
v5.7.13
v5.7.14
v5.7.15
v5.7.16
v5.7.2
v5.7.3
v5.7.4
v5.7.5
v5.7.6
v5.7.7
v5.7.8
v5.7.9
v5.8.1
v5.8.10
v5.8.11
v5.8.12
v5.8.13
v5.8.14
v5.8.15
v5.8.16
v5.8.17
v5.8.18
v5.8.2
v5.8.3
v5.8.4
v5.8.5
v5.8.6
v5.8.7
v5.8.8
v5.8.9
v5.9.1
v5.9.10
v5.9.11
v5.9.12
v5.9.13
v5.9.14
v5.9.15
v5.9.16
v5.9.2
v5.9.3
v5.9.4
v5.9.5
v5.9.6
v5.9.7
v5.9.8
v5.9.9

v6.*

v6.0
v6.0-rc1
v6.0-rc2
v6.0-rc3
v6.0-rc4
v6.0-rc5
v6.0-rc6
v6.0-rc7
v6.0.1
v6.0.10
v6.0.11
v6.0.12
v6.0.13
v6.0.14
v6.0.15
v6.0.16
v6.0.17
v6.0.18
v6.0.2
v6.0.3
v6.0.4
v6.0.5
v6.0.6
v6.0.7
v6.0.8
v6.0.9
v6.1
v6.1-rc1
v6.1-rc2
v6.1-rc3
v6.1-rc4
v6.1-rc5
v6.1-rc6
v6.1-rc7
v6.1-rc8
v6.1.1
v6.1.10
v6.1.11
v6.1.12
v6.1.13
v6.1.14
v6.1.15
v6.1.2
v6.1.3
v6.1.4
v6.1.5
v6.1.6
v6.1.7
v6.1.8
v6.1.9
v6.10
v6.10-rc1
v6.10-rc2
v6.10-rc3
v6.10-rc4
v6.10-rc5
v6.10-rc6
v6.10-rc7
v6.10.1
v6.10.10
v6.10.11
v6.10.12
v6.10.13
v6.10.2
v6.10.3
v6.10.4
v6.10.5
v6.10.6
v6.10.7
v6.10.8
v6.10.9
v6.11
v6.11-rc1
v6.11-rc2
v6.11-rc3
v6.11-rc4
v6.11-rc5
v6.11-rc6
v6.11-rc7
v6.11.1
v6.11.10
v6.11.11
v6.11.2
v6.11.3
v6.11.4
v6.11.5
v6.11.6
v6.11.7
v6.11.8
v6.11.9
v6.12
v6.12-rc1
v6.12-rc2
v6.12-rc3
v6.12-rc4
v6.12-rc5
v6.12-rc6
v6.12-rc7
v6.12.1
v6.12.10
v6.12.11
v6.12.12
v6.12.13
v6.12.14
v6.12.2
v6.12.3
v6.12.4
v6.12.5
v6.12.6
v6.12.7
v6.12.8
v6.12.9
v6.13
v6.13-rc1
v6.13-rc2
v6.13-rc3
v6.13-rc4
v6.13-rc5
v6.13-rc6
v6.13-rc7
v6.13.1
v6.13.10
v6.13.11
v6.13.12
v6.13.2
v6.13.3
v6.13.4
v6.13.5
v6.13.6
v6.13.7
v6.13.8
v6.13.9
v6.14
v6.14-rc1
v6.14-rc2
v6.14-rc3
v6.14-rc4
v6.14-rc5
v6.14-rc6
v6.14-rc7
v6.14.1
v6.14.10
v6.14.11
v6.14.2
v6.14.3
v6.14.4
v6.14.5
v6.14.6
v6.14.7
v6.14.8
v6.14.9
v6.15
v6.15-rc1
v6.15-rc2
v6.15-rc3
v6.15-rc4
v6.15-rc5
v6.15-rc6
v6.15-rc7
v6.15.1
v6.15.10
v6.15.11
v6.15.2
v6.15.3
v6.15.4
v6.15.5
v6.15.6
v6.15.7
v6.15.8
v6.15.9
v6.16
v6.16-rc1
v6.16-rc2
v6.16-rc3
v6.16-rc4
v6.16-rc5
v6.16-rc6
v6.16-rc7
v6.16.1
v6.16.10
v6.16.11
v6.16.12
v6.16.2
v6.16.3
v6.16.4
v6.16.5
v6.16.6
v6.16.7
v6.16.8
v6.16.9
v6.17
v6.17-rc1
v6.17-rc2
v6.17-rc3
v6.17-rc4
v6.17-rc5
v6.17-rc6
v6.17-rc7
v6.17.1
v6.17.2
v6.2
v6.2-rc1
v6.2-rc2
v6.2-rc3
v6.2-rc4
v6.2-rc5
v6.2-rc6
v6.2-rc7
v6.2-rc8
v6.2.1
v6.2.10
v6.2.11
v6.2.12
v6.2.13
v6.2.14
v6.2.15
v6.2.2
v6.2.3
v6.2.4
v6.2.5
v6.2.6
v6.2.7
v6.2.8
v6.2.9
v6.3
v6.3-rc1
v6.3-rc2
v6.3-rc3
v6.3-rc4
v6.3-rc5
v6.3-rc6
v6.3-rc7
v6.3.1
v6.3.10
v6.3.11
v6.3.12
v6.3.2
v6.3.3
v6.3.4
v6.3.5
v6.3.6
v6.3.7
v6.3.8
v6.3.9
v6.4
v6.4-rc1
v6.4-rc2
v6.4-rc3
v6.4-rc4
v6.4-rc5
v6.4-rc6
v6.4-rc7
v6.4.1
v6.4.10
v6.4.11
v6.4.12
v6.4.13
v6.4.14
v6.4.15
v6.4.16
v6.4.2
v6.4.3
v6.4.4
v6.4.5
v6.4.6
v6.4.7
v6.4.8
v6.4.9
v6.5
v6.5-rc1
v6.5-rc2
v6.5-rc3
v6.5-rc4
v6.5-rc5
v6.5-rc6
v6.5-rc7
v6.5.1
v6.5.10
v6.5.11
v6.5.12
v6.5.13
v6.5.2
v6.5.3
v6.5.4
v6.5.5
v6.5.6
v6.5.7
v6.5.8
v6.5.9
v6.6
v6.6-rc1
v6.6-rc2
v6.6-rc3
v6.6-rc4
v6.6-rc5
v6.6-rc6
v6.6-rc7
v6.6.1
v6.6.10
v6.6.11
v6.6.12
v6.6.13
v6.6.14
v6.6.2
v6.6.3
v6.6.4
v6.6.5
v6.6.6
v6.6.7
v6.6.8
v6.6.9
v6.7
v6.7-rc1
v6.7-rc2
v6.7-rc3
v6.7-rc4
v6.7-rc5
v6.7-rc6
v6.7-rc7
v6.7-rc8
v6.7.1
v6.7.10
v6.7.11
v6.7.2
v6.7.3
v6.7.4
v6.7.5
v6.7.6
v6.7.7
v6.7.8
v6.7.9
v6.8
v6.8-rc1
v6.8-rc2
v6.8-rc3
v6.8-rc4
v6.8-rc5
v6.8-rc6
v6.8-rc7
v6.8.1
v6.8.10
v6.8.11
v6.8.2
v6.8.3
v6.8.4
v6.8.5
v6.8.6
v6.8.7
v6.8.8
v6.8.9
v6.9
v6.9-rc1
v6.9-rc2
v6.9-rc3
v6.9-rc4
v6.9-rc5
v6.9-rc6
v6.9-rc7
v6.9.1
v6.9.10
v6.9.11
v6.9.12
v6.9.2
v6.9.3
v6.9.4
v6.9.5
v6.9.6
v6.9.7
v6.9.8
v6.9.9

Database specific

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Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.18.0
Fixed
6.1.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.2.3