CVE-2023-53823

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53823
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53823.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53823
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Related
Published
2025-12-09T01:29:36Z
Modified
2026-10-08T02:48:13Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
block/rq_qos: protect rq_qos apis with a new lock
Details

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

block/rq_qos: protect rq_qos apis with a new lock

commit 50e34d78815e ("block: disable the elevator int del_gendisk") move rq_qos_exit() from disk_release() to del_gendisk(), this will introduce some problems:

  1. If rq_qos_add() is triggered by enabling iocost/iolatency through cgroupfs, then it can concurrent with del_gendisk(), it's not safe to write 'q->rq_qos' concurrently.

  2. Activate cgroup policy that is relied on rq_qos will call rq_qos_add() and blkcg_activate_policy(), and if rq_qos_exit() is called in the middle, null-ptr-dereference will be triggered in blkcg_activate_policy().

  3. blkg_conf_open_bdev() can call blkdev_get_no_open() first to find the disk, then if rq_qos_exit() from del_gendisk() is done before rq_qos_add(), then memory will be leaked.

This patch add a new disk level mutex 'rq_qos_mutex':

  1. The lock will protect rq_qos_exit() directly.

  2. For wbt that doesn't relied on blk-cgroup, rq_qos_add() can only be called from disk initialization for now because wbt can't be destructed until rq_qos_exit(), so it's safe not to protect wbt for now. Hoever, in case that rq_qos dynamically destruction is supported in the furture, this patch also protect rq_qos_add() from wbt_init() directly, this is enough because blk-sysfs already synchronize writers with disk removal.

  3. For iocost and iolatency, in order to synchronize disk removal and cgroup configuration, the lock is held after blkdev_get_no_open() from blkg_conf_open_bdev(), and is released in blkg_conf_exit(). In order to fix the above memory leak, disk_live() is checked after holding the new lock.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53823.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
50e34d78815e474d410f342fbe783b18192ca518
Fixed
16398b4638b5cd8c1dc95fc940a1591a801d53ce
Fixed
a13bd91be22318768d55470cbc0b0f4488ef9edf
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.18.8
Fixed
5.19
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
f28699fafc047ec33299da01e928c3a0073c5cc6

Affected versions

v5.*
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
v5.18.8
v5.18.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53823.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.19.0
Fixed
6.4.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53823.json"