CVE-2023-53100
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
02/05/2025
Last modified:
10/11/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_update_inline_data<br />
<br />
Syzbot found the following issue:<br />
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 without journal. Quota mode: none.<br />
fscrypt: AES-256-CTS-CBC using implementation "cts-cbc-aes-aesni"<br />
fscrypt: AES-256-XTS using implementation "xts-aes-aesni"<br />
------------[ cut here ]------------<br />
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5071 at mm/page_alloc.c:5525 __alloc_pages+0x30a/0x560 mm/page_alloc.c:5525<br />
Modules linked in:<br />
CPU: 1 PID: 5071 Comm: syz-executor263 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0<br />
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022<br />
RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x30a/0x560 mm/page_alloc.c:5525<br />
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c2f1c0 EFLAGS: 00010246<br />
RAX: ffffc90003c2f220 RBX: 0000000000000014 RCX: 0000000000000000<br />
RDX: 0000000000000028 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90003c2f248<br />
RBP: ffffc90003c2f2d8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffc90003c2f220<br />
R10: fffff52000785e49 R11: 1ffff92000785e44 R12: 0000000000040d40<br />
R13: 1ffff92000785e40 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff92000785e3c<br />
FS: 0000555556c0d300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
CR2: 00007f95d5e04138 CR3: 00000000793aa000 CR4: 00000000003506f0<br />
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br />
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
__alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:237 [inline]<br />
alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:260 [inline]<br />
__kmalloc_large_node+0x95/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:1113<br />
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:956 [inline]<br />
__kmalloc+0xfe/0x190 mm/slab_common.c:981<br />
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:584 [inline]<br />
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:720 [inline]<br />
ext4_update_inline_data+0x236/0x6b0 fs/ext4/inline.c:346<br />
ext4_update_inline_dir fs/ext4/inline.c:1115 [inline]<br />
ext4_try_add_inline_entry+0x328/0x990 fs/ext4/inline.c:1307<br />
ext4_add_entry+0x5a4/0xeb0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2385<br />
ext4_add_nondir+0x96/0x260 fs/ext4/namei.c:2772<br />
ext4_create+0x36c/0x560 fs/ext4/namei.c:2817<br />
lookup_open fs/namei.c:3413 [inline]<br />
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline]<br />
path_openat+0x12ac/0x2dd0 fs/namei.c:3711<br />
do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3741<br />
do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310<br />
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline]<br />
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1342 [inline]<br />
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1337 [inline]<br />
__x64_sys_openat+0x243/0x290 fs/open.c:1337<br />
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]<br />
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd<br />
<br />
Above issue happens as follows:<br />
ext4_iget<br />
ext4_find_inline_data_nolock ->i_inline_off=164 i_inline_size=60<br />
ext4_try_add_inline_entry<br />
__ext4_mark_inode_dirty<br />
ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea ->i_extra_isize=32 s_want_extra_isize=44<br />
ext4_xattr_shift_entries<br />
->after shift i_inline_off is incorrect, actually is change to 176<br />
ext4_try_add_inline_entry<br />
ext4_update_inline_dir<br />
get_max_inline_xattr_value_size<br />
if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off)<br />
entry = (struct ext4_xattr_entry *)((void *)raw_inode +<br />
EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off);<br />
free += EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(le32_to_cpu(entry->e_value_size));<br />
->As entry is incorrect, then &#39;free&#39; may be negative<br />
ext4_update_inline_data<br />
value = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);<br />
-> len is unsigned int, maybe very large, then trigger warning when<br />
&#39;kzalloc()&#39;<br />
<br />
To resolve the above issue we need to update &#39;i_inline_off&#39; after<br />
&#39;ext4_xattr_shift_entries()&#39;. We do not need to set<br />
EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag here, since ext4_mark_inode_dirty()<br />
already sets this flag if needed. Setting EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA<br />
when it is needed may trigger a BUG_ON in ext4_writepages().
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.14.310 (excluding) | |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.15 (including) | 4.19.278 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.20 (including) | 5.4.237 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.5 (including) | 5.10.175 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.11 (including) | 5.15.103 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.16 (including) | 6.1.20 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.2 (including) | 6.2.7 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b96b4a5d9443ca4cad58b0040be455803c05a42
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35161cec76772f74526f5886ad4082ec48511d5c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39c5df2ca544368b44b59d0f6d80131e90763371
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74d775083e9f3d9dadf9e3b5f3e0028d1ad0bd5c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92eee6a82a9a6f9f83559e17a2b6b935e1a5cd25
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9bd94f67b27739bbe8583c52256502bd4cc7e83
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5aa102b433b1890e1ccaa40c06826c77dda1665
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca500cf2eceb5a8e93bf71ab97b5f7a18ecabce2



