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CVE-2023-54194 (GCVE-0-2023-54194)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:09 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:57
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Title
exfat: use kvmalloc_array/kvfree instead of kmalloc_array/kfree
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: exfat: use kvmalloc_array/kvfree instead of kmalloc_array/kfree The call stack shown below is a scenario in the Linux 4.19 kernel. Allocating memory failed where exfat fs use kmalloc_array due to system memory fragmentation, while the u-disk was inserted without recognition. Devices such as u-disk using the exfat file system are pluggable and may be insert into the system at any time. However, long-term running systems cannot guarantee the continuity of physical memory. Therefore, it's necessary to address this issue. Binder:2632_6: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x6040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null) Call trace: [242178.097582] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x4 [242178.097589] dump_stack+0xf4/0x134 [242178.097598] warn_alloc+0xd8/0x144 [242178.097603] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1364/0x1384 [242178.097608] kmalloc_order+0x2c/0x510 [242178.097612] kmalloc_order_trace+0x40/0x16c [242178.097618] __kmalloc+0x360/0x408 [242178.097624] load_alloc_bitmap+0x160/0x284 [242178.097628] exfat_fill_super+0xa3c/0xe7c [242178.097635] mount_bdev+0x2e8/0x3a0 [242178.097638] exfat_fs_mount+0x40/0x50 [242178.097643] mount_fs+0x138/0x2e8 [242178.097649] vfs_kern_mount+0x90/0x270 [242178.097655] do_mount+0x798/0x173c [242178.097659] ksys_mount+0x114/0x1ac [242178.097665] __arm64_sys_mount+0x24/0x34 [242178.097671] el0_svc_common+0xb8/0x1b8 [242178.097676] el0_svc_handler+0x74/0x90 [242178.097681] el0_svc+0x8/0x340 By analyzing the exfat code,we found that continuous physical memory is not required here,so kvmalloc_array is used can solve this problem.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1e49a94cf707204b66a3fb242f2814712c941f52 , < 79d16a84ea41272dfcb0c00f9798ddd0edd8098d (git)
Affected: 1e49a94cf707204b66a3fb242f2814712c941f52 , < 8a34a242cf03211cc89f68308d149b793f63c479 (git)
Affected: 1e49a94cf707204b66a3fb242f2814712c941f52 , < 1427a7e96fb90d0896f74f5bcd21feb03cc7c3d0 (git)
Affected: 1e49a94cf707204b66a3fb242f2814712c941f52 , < 0c5c3e8a2550b6b2a304b45f260296db9c09df96 (git)
Affected: 1e49a94cf707204b66a3fb242f2814712c941f52 , < daf60d6cca26e50d65dac374db92e58de745ad26 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.190 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.126 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.45 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.10 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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