CVE-2023-53832
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref in raid10_sync_request
init_resync() inits mempool and sets conf->have_replacemnt at the beginning
of sync, close_sync() frees the mempool when sync is completed.
After [1] recovery might be skipped and init_resync() is called but
close_sync() is not. null-ptr-deref occurs with r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio.
The following is one way to reproduce the issue.
1) create a array, wait for resync to complete, mddev->recovery_cp is set
to MaxSector.
2) recovery is woken and it is skipped. conf->have_replacement is set to
0 in init_resync(). close_sync() not called.
3) some io errors and rdev A is set to WantReplacement.
4) a new device is added and set to A's replacement.
5) recovery is woken, A have replacement, but conf->have_replacemnt is
0. r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio will not be alloced and null-ptr-deref
occurs.
Fix it by not calling init_resync() if recovery skipped.
[1] commit 7e83ccbecd60 ("md/raid10: Allow skipping recovery when clean arrays are assembled")
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14964127be77884003976a392c9faa9ebaabbbe1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38d33593260536840b49fd1dcac9aedfd14a9d42
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68695084077e3de9d3e94e09238ace2b6f246446
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99b503e4edc5938885d839cf0e7571963f75d800
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e9efc77efd1956cc244af975240f2513d78a371