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CVE-2023-53620 (GCVE-0-2023-53620)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:19 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:48
VLAI
Title
md: fix soft lockup in status_resync
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md: fix soft lockup in status_resync status_resync() will calculate 'curr_resync - recovery_active' to show user a progress bar like following: [============>........] resync = 61.4% 'curr_resync' and 'recovery_active' is updated in md_do_sync(), and status_resync() can read them concurrently, hence it's possible that 'curr_resync - recovery_active' can overflow to a huge number. In this case status_resync() will be stuck in the loop to print a large amount of '=', which will end up soft lockup. Fix the problem by setting 'resync' to MD_RESYNC_ACTIVE in this case, this way resync in progress will be reported to user.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < b4acb6c3ede88d6b7d33742a09e63cfce5e7fb69 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 23309704e90859af2662bedc44101e6d1d2ece7e (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 6efddf1e32e2a264694766ca485a4f5e04ee82a7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.30 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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