CVE-2023-53210

md/raid5-cache: fix null-ptr-deref for r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid()

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Sep 15, 2025

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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().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0dd00cba99c352dc9afd62979f350d808c215cb9 to before 711fb92606208a8626b785da4f9f23d648a5b6c8Affected
  • 0dd00cba99c352dc9afd62979f350d808c215cb9 to before 7a8b6d93991bf4b72b3f959baea35397c6c8e521Affected
  • 0dd00cba99c352dc9afd62979f350d808c215cb9 to before e46b2e7be8059d156af8c011dd8d665229b65886Affected
  • 0dd00cba99c352dc9afd62979f350d808c215cb9 to before 0d0bd28c500173bfca78aa840f8f36d261ef1765Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 6.1.53 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.16 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5.3 through 6.5.*Not affected
  • 6.6 and laterNot affected

References

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