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CVE-2023-53421

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CVE-2023-53421

Published: Sep 18, 2025

Modified: Jun 1, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in blkcg_reset_stats() When blkg_alloc() is called to allocate a blkcg_gq structure with the associated blkg_iostat_set's, there are 2 fields within blkg_iostat_set that requires proper initialization - blkg & sync. The former field was introduced by commit 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()") while the later one was introduced by commit f73316482977 ("blk-cgroup: reimplement basic IO stats using cgroup rstat"). Unfortunately those fields in the blkg_iostat_set's are not properly re-initialized when they are cleared in v1's blkcg_reset_stats(). This can lead to a kernel panic due to NULL pointer access of the blkg pointer. The missing initialization of sync is less problematic and can be a problem in a debug kernel due to missing lockdep initialization. Fix these problems by re-initializing them after memory clearing.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
f73316482977ac401ac37245c9df48079d4e11f3 - < 58c135513562698f222a58ba07dbdfcfb268aa0d
affected
f73316482977ac401ac37245c9df48079d4e11f3 - < 0561aa6033dd181594116d705c41fc16e97161a2
affected
f73316482977ac401ac37245c9df48079d4e11f3 - < 892faa76be894d324bf48b12a55c7af7be2bad83
affected
f73316482977ac401ac37245c9df48079d4e11f3 - < b0d26283af612b9e0cc3188b0b88ad7fdea447e8
affected
f73316482977ac401ac37245c9df48079d4e11f3 - < abbce7f82613ea5eeefd0fc3c1c8e449b9cef2a2

+1 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.5
unaffected
0 - < 5.5
unaffected
5.10.258 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.199 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.162 - <= 6.1.*

+3 more versions

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