CVE-2023-53670

nvme-core: fix dev_pm_qos memleak

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 7, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 7, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvme-core: fix dev_pm_qos memleak

Call dev_pm_qos_hide_latency_tolerance() in the error unwind patch to avoid following kmemleak:-

blktests (master) # kmemleak-clear; ./check nvme/044; blktests (master) # kmemleak-scan ; kmemleak-show nvme/044 (Test bi-directional authentication) [passed] runtime 2.111s ... 2.124s unreferenced object 0xffff888110c46240 (size 96): comm "nvme", pid 33461, jiffies 4345365353 (age 75.586s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<0000000069ac2cec>] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0x90 [<000000006acc66d5>] dev_pm_qos_update_user_latency_tolerance+0x6f/0x100 [<00000000cc376ea7>] nvme_init_ctrl+0x38e/0x410 [nvme_core] [<000000007df61b4b>] 0xffffffffc05e88b3 [<00000000d152b985>] 0xffffffffc05744cb [<00000000f04a4041>] vfs_write+0xc5/0x3c0 [<00000000f9491baf>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<000000001c46513d>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000ecf348fe>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea to before e1379e067b9485e5af03399fe3f0d39bccb023adAffected
  • f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea to before 7237c26431cc78e5ec3259f4350f3dd58f6a4319Affected
  • f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea to before 2ed9a89192e3192e5fea7ff6475c8722513f325eAffected
  • f50fff73d620cd6e8f48bc58d4f1c944615a3fea to before 7ed5cf8e6d9bfb6a78d0471317edff14f0f2b4ddAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.0Affected
  • before 6.0Not affected
  • 6.1.39 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.3.13 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4.4 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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