CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53511
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring: fix fget leak when fs don't support nowait buffered read
Heming reported a BUG when using io_uring doing link-cp on ocfs2. [1]
Do the following steps can reproduce this BUG:
mount -t ocfs2 /dev/vdc /mnt/ocfs2
cp testfile /mnt/ocfs2/
./link-cp /mnt/ocfs2/testfile /mnt/ocfs2/testfile.1
umount /mnt/ocfs2
Then umount will fail, and it outputs:
umount: /mnt/ocfs2: target is busy.
While tracing umount, it blames mnt_get_count() not return as expected.
Do a deep investigation for fget()/fput() on related code flow, I've
finally found that fget() leaks since ocfs2 doesn't support nowait
buffered read.
io_issue_sqe
|-io_assign_file // do fget() first
|-io_read
|-io_iter_do_read
|-ocfs2_file_read_iter // return -EOPNOTSUPP
|-kiocb_done
|-io_rw_done
|-__io_complete_rw_common // set REQ_F_REISSUE
|-io_resubmit_prep
|-io_req_prep_async // override req->file, leak happens
This was introduced by commit a196c78b5443 in v5.18. Fix it by don't
re-assign req->file if it has already been assigned.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/ocfs2-devel/[email protected]/T/#t
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17.9 < 5.18)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18.1 < 6.1.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.3)
• linux linux kernel 5.18
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness