CVE-2023-53044

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure<br /> <br /> Check alloc_precpu()&amp;#39;s return value and return an error from<br /> dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if<br /> dm_stats_init() does.<br /> <br /> Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup()<br /> even if dm-stats isn&amp;#39;t being actively used.