fkie_cve-2023-53149
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-09-15 14:15
Modified
2025-09-15 15:22
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback
Ext4 has a filesystem wide lock protecting ext4_writepages() calls to
avoid races with switching of journalled data flag or inode format. This
lock can however cause a deadlock like:
CPU0 CPU1
ext4_writepages()
percpu_down_read(sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
ext4_change_inode_journal_flag()
percpu_down_write(sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
- blocks, all readers block from now on
ext4_do_writepages()
ext4_init_io_end()
kmem_cache_zalloc(io_end_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)
fs_reclaim frees dentry...
dentry_unlink_inode()
iput() - last ref =>
iput_final() - inode dirty =>
write_inode_now()...
ext4_writepages() tries to acquire sbi->s_writepages_rwsem
and blocks forever
Make sure we cannot recurse into filesystem reclaim from writeback code
to avoid the deadlock.
References
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{
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback\n\nExt4 has a filesystem wide lock protecting ext4_writepages() calls to\navoid races with switching of journalled data flag or inode format. This\nlock can however cause a deadlock like:\n\nCPU0 CPU1\n\next4_writepages()\n percpu_down_read(sbi-\u003es_writepages_rwsem);\n ext4_change_inode_journal_flag()\n percpu_down_write(sbi-\u003es_writepages_rwsem);\n - blocks, all readers block from now on\n ext4_do_writepages()\n ext4_init_io_end()\n kmem_cache_zalloc(io_end_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)\n fs_reclaim frees dentry...\n dentry_unlink_inode()\n iput() - last ref =\u003e\n iput_final() - inode dirty =\u003e\n write_inode_now()...\n ext4_writepages() tries to acquire sbi-\u003es_writepages_rwsem\n and blocks forever\n\nMake sure we cannot recurse into filesystem reclaim from writeback code\nto avoid the deadlock."
}
],
"id": "CVE-2023-53149",
"lastModified": "2025-09-15T15:22:27.090",
"metrics": {},
"published": "2025-09-15T14:15:37.393",
"references": [
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00d873c17e29cc32d90ca852b82685f1673acaa5"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ec97dc90df40c50e509809dc9a198638a7e18b6"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b4340bf04ce9a52061f15000ecedd126abc093c"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}
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