CVE-2023-53210

Published: September 16, 2025Last modified: September 16, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5-cache: fix null-ptr-deref for r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid() r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid() will check if the list 'flushing_ios' is empty, and then submit 'flush_bio', however, r5l_log_flush_endio() is clearing the list first and then clear the bio, which will cause null-ptr-deref: T1: submit flush io raid5d handle_active_stripes r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid // list is empty // add 'io_end_ios' to the list bio_init submit_bio // io1 T2: io1 is done r5l_log_flush_endio list_splice_tail_init // clear the list T3: submit new flush io ... r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid // list is empty // add 'io_end_ios' to the list bio_init bio_uninit // clear bio->bi_blkg submit_bio // null-ptr-deref Fix this problem by clearing bio before clearing the list in r5l_log_flush_endio().

Status

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d0bd28c500173bfca78aa840f8f36d261ef1765
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/711fb92606208a8626b785da4f9f23d648a5b6c8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a8b6d93991bf4b72b3f959baea35397c6c8e521
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e46b2e7be8059d156af8c011dd8d665229b65886