CVE-2023-53810

blk-mq: release crypto keyslot before reporting I/O complete

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Dec 9, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 8, 2025

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Description

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

blk-mq: release crypto keyslot before reporting I/O complete

Once all I/O using a blk_crypto_key has completed, filesystems can call blk_crypto_evict_key(). However, the block layer currently doesn't call blk_crypto_put_keyslot() until the request is being freed, which happens after upper layers have been told (via bio_endio()) the I/O has completed. This causes a race condition where blk_crypto_evict_key() can see 'slot_refs != 0' without there being an actual bug.

This makes __blk_crypto_evict_key() hit the 'WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&slot->slot_refs) != 0)' and return without doing anything, eventually causing a use-after-free in blk_crypto_reprogram_all_keys(). (This is a very rare bug and has only been seen when per-file keys are being used with fscrypt.)

There are two options to fix this: either release the keyslot before bio_endio() is called on the request's last bio, or make __blk_crypto_evict_key() ignore slot_refs. Let's go with the first solution, since it preserves the ability to report bugs (via WARN_ON_ONCE) where a key is evicted while still in-use.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a892c8d52c02284076fbbacae6692aa5c5807d11 to before 874bdf43b4a7dc5463c31508f62b3e42eb237b08Affected
  • a892c8d52c02284076fbbacae6692aa5c5807d11 to before d206f79d9cd658665b37ce8134c6ec849ac7af0cAffected
  • a892c8d52c02284076fbbacae6692aa5c5807d11 to before 7d206ec7a04e8545828191b6ea8b49d3ea61391fAffected
  • a892c8d52c02284076fbbacae6692aa5c5807d11 to before b278570e2c59d538216f8b656e97680188a8fba4Affected
  • a892c8d52c02284076fbbacae6692aa5c5807d11 to before 92d5d233b9ff531cf9cc36ab4251779e07adb633Affected
  • a892c8d52c02284076fbbacae6692aa5c5807d11 to before 9cd1e566676bbcb8a126acd921e4e194e6339603Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 5.10.180 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.111 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.28 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.15 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3.2 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4 and laterNot affected

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