CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53210
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid5-cache: fix null-ptr-deref for r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid()
r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid() will check if the list 'flushing_ios' is
empty, and then submit 'flush_bio', however, r5l_log_flush_endio()
is clearing the list first and then clear the bio, which will cause
null-ptr-deref:
T1: submit flush io
raid5d
handle_active_stripes
r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid
// list is empty
// add 'io_end_ios' to the list
bio_init
submit_bio
// io1
T2: io1 is done
r5l_log_flush_endio
list_splice_tail_init
// clear the list
T3: submit new flush io
...
r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid
// list is empty
// add 'io_end_ios' to the list
bio_init
bio_uninit
// clear bio->bi_blkg
submit_bio
// null-ptr-deref
Fix this problem by clearing bio before clearing the list in
r5l_log_flush_endio().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 6.1.53)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.5.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d0bd28c500173bfca78aa840f8f36d261ef1765 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/711fb92606208a8626b785da4f9f23d648a5b6c8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a8b6d93991bf4b72b3f959baea35397c6c8e521 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e46b2e7be8059d156af8c011dd8d665229b65886 Patch