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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2023-53089

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/02/2025 12:15:27 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

ext4: fix task hung in ext4_xattr_delete_inode

Syzbot reported a hung task problem:
==================================================================
INFO: task syz-executor232:5073 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
      Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-syzkaller-00024-g512dee0c00ad #0
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:syz-exec232 state:D stack:21024 pid:5073 ppid:5072 flags:0x00004004
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5244 [inline]
 __schedule+0x995/0xe20 kernel/sched/core.c:6555
 schedule+0xcb/0x190 kernel/sched/core.c:6631
 __wait_on_freeing_inode fs/inode.c:2196 [inline]
 find_inode_fast+0x35a/0x4c0 fs/inode.c:950
 iget_locked+0xb1/0x830 fs/inode.c:1273
 __ext4_iget+0x22e/0x3ed0 fs/ext4/inode.c:4861
 ext4_xattr_inode_iget+0x68/0x4e0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:389
 ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all+0x1a7/0xe50 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1148
 ext4_xattr_delete_inode+0xb04/0xcd0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2880
 ext4_evict_inode+0xd7c/0x10b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:296
 evict+0x2a4/0x620 fs/inode.c:664
 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xb60/0x1340 fs/ext4/orphan.c:474
 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5516 [inline]
 ext4_fill_super+0x81cd/0x8700 fs/ext4/super.c:5644
 get_tree_bdev+0x400/0x620 fs/super.c:1282
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1489
 do_new_mount+0x289/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3145
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2d3/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3674
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7fa5406fd5ea
RSP: 002b:00007ffc7232f968 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fa5406fd5ea
RDX: 0000000020000440 RSI: 0000000020000000 RDI: 00007ffc7232f970
RBP: 00007ffc7232f970 R08: 00007ffc7232f9b0 R09: 0000000000000432
R10: 0000000000804a03 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 0000555556a7a2c0 R14: 00007ffc7232f9b0 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
==================================================================

The problem is that the inode contains an xattr entry with ea_inum of 15
when cleaning up an orphan inode <15>. When evict inode <15>, the reference
counting of the corresponding EA inode is decreased. When EA inode <15> is
found by find_inode_fast() in __ext4_iget(), it is found that the EA inode
holds the I_FREEING flag and waits for the EA inode to complete deletion.
As a result, when inode <15> is being deleted, we wait for inode <15> to
complete the deletion, resulting in an infinite loop and triggering Hung
Task. To solve this problem, we only need to check whether the ino of EA
inode and parent is the same before getting EA inode.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f7bfd6f8164be32dbbdf36aa1e5d00485c53cd7
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1aec41c98cce61d19ce89650895e51b9f3cdef13
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c96c52aeaa6fd9163cfacdd98778b4a0398ef18
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64b72f5e7574020dea62ab733d88a54d903c42a1
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73f7987fe1b82596f1a380e85cd0097ebaae7e01
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94fd091576b12540924f6316ebc0678e84cb2800
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a98160d8f3e6242ca9b7f443f26e7ef3a61ba684
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efddc7e106fdf8d1f62d45e79de78f63b7c04fba