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CVE-2023-53317 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent Syzbot found the following issue: EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation, dioread_nolock, O_DIRECT and fast_commit support! EXT4-fs (loop0): orphan cleanup on readonly fs ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor307 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 RIP: 0010:mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c9e098 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff82405731 RBX: 0000000000000041 RCX: ffff8880783457c0 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000041 RDI: 0000000000000040 RBP: 0000000000000040 R08: ffffffff82405723 R09: ffffed10053c9402 R10: ffffed10053c9402 R11: 1ffff110053c9401 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffc90003c9e538 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc90003c9e2cc FS: 0000555556665300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000056312f6796f8 CR3: 0000000022437000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x353/0x1100 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2307 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x1533/0x3860 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2735 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xddf/0x3db0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5605 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1868/0x6880 fs/ext4/extents.c:4286 ext4_map_blocks+0xa49/0x1cc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:651 ext4_getblk+0x1b9/0x770 fs/ext4/inode.c:864 ext4_bread+0x2a/0x170 fs/ext4/inode.c:920 ext4_quota_write+0x225/0x570 fs/ext4/super.c:7105 write_blk fs/quota/quota_tree.c:64 [inline] get_free_dqblk+0x34a/0x6d0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:130 do_insert_tree+0x26b/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:340 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 dq_insert_tree fs/quota/quota_tree.c:401 [inline] qtree_write_dquot+0x3b6/0x530 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:420 v2_write_dquot+0x11b/0x190 fs/quota/quota_v2.c:358 dquot_acquire+0x348/0x670 fs/quota/dquot.c:444 ext4_acquire_dquot+0x2dc/0x400 fs/ext4/super.c:6740 dqget+0x999/0xdc0 fs/quota/dquot.c:914 __dquot_initialize+0x3d0/0xcf0 fs/quota/dquot.c:1492 ext4_process_orphan+0x57/0x2d0 fs/ext4/orphan.c:329 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 Add some debug information: mb_find_extent: mb_find_extent block=41, order=0 needed=64 next=0 ex=0/41/1@3735929054 64 64 7 block_bitmap: ff 3f 0c 00 fc 01 00 00 d2 3d 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff Acctually, blocks per group is 64, but block bitmap indicate at least has 128 blocks. Now, ext4_validate_block_bitmap() didn't check invalid block's bitmap if set. To resolve above issue, add check like fsck "Padding at end of block bitmap is not set".


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b90fbc7590124c57a2e590de7fd07eba26606f1 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d356d902e9d5b1aaaaf2326d365340fa8a90c1b kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/775b00ba23f6f916fe2ac60c5ff7fd0fe4f28d0d kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d55e76e11592a1d18a179c7fd34ca1b52632beb3 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dba62fa84a8eac44a53a2862de8a40e5bdfa0ae3 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd45e536f47a82e0a405f9a4b6c7ceb367171ee9 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4d503c956a744cb59e509ca5f134cfad423c7a3 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa08a7b61dff8a4df11ff1e84abfc214b487caf7 kernel.org

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-53317
NVD Published Date:
09/16/2025
NVD Last Modified:
09/16/2025
Source:
kernel.org