CVE-2023-53337
Published: Sep 17, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: do not write dirty data after degenerating to read-only According to syzbot's report, mark_buffer_dirty() called from nilfs_segctor_do_construct() outputs a warning with some patterns after nilfs2 detects metadata corruption and degrades to read-only mode. After such read-only degeneration, page cache data may be cleared through nilfs_clear_dirty_page() which may also clear the uptodate flag for their buffer heads. However, even after the degeneration, log writes are still performed by unmount processing etc., which causes mark_buffer_dirty() to be called for buffer heads without the "uptodate" flag and causes the warning. Since any writes should not be done to a read-only file system in the first place, this fixes the warning in mark_buffer_dirty() by letting nilfs_segctor_do_construct() abort early if in read-only mode. This also changes the retry check of nilfs_segctor_write_out() to avoid unnecessary log write retries if it detects -EROFS that nilfs_segctor_do_construct() returned.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 8c26c4e2694a163d525976e804d81cd955bbb40c - < bd89073fc7a5d03b1d06b372addbe405e5a925f4affected 8c26c4e2694a163d525976e804d81cd955bbb40c - < e9c5412c5972124776c1b873533eb39e287a4dfaaffected 8c26c4e2694a163d525976e804d81cd955bbb40c - < 4569a292a84e340e97d178898ad1cfe1a3080a61affected 8c26c4e2694a163d525976e804d81cd955bbb40c - < 7c3e662048053802f6b0db3a78e97f4e1f7edc4faffected 8c26c4e2694a163d525976e804d81cd955bbb40c - < 13f73ef77baa4764dc1ca4fcbae9cade05b83866+4 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.10unaffected 0 - < 3.10unaffected 4.14.315 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.283 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.243 - <= 5.4.*+6 more versions |
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