CVE-2023-53149
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2023
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback Ext4 has a filesystem wide lock protecting ext4_writepages() calls to avoid races with switching of journalled data flag or inode format. This lock can however cause a deadlock like: CPU0 CPU1 ext4_writepages() percpu_down_read(sbi->s_writepages_rwsem); ext4_change_inode_journal_flag() percpu_down_write(sbi->s_writepages_rwsem); - blocks, all readers block from now on ext4_do_writepages() ext4_init_io_end() kmem_cache_zalloc(io_end_cachep, GFP_KERNEL) fs_reclaim frees dentry... dentry_unlink_inode() iput() - last ref => iput_final() - inode dirty => write_inode_now()... ext4_writepages() tries to acquire sbi->s_writepages_rwsem and blocks forever Make sure we cannot recurse into filesystem reclaim from writeback code to avoid the deadlock.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c8585c6fcaf2011de54c3592e80a634a2b9e1a7f | affected | git | 2ec97dc90df40c50e509809dc9a198638a7e18b6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c8585c6fcaf2011de54c3592e80a634a2b9e1a7f | affected | git | 4b4340bf04ce9a52061f15000ecedd126abc093c | Unavailable | None listed |
| c8585c6fcaf2011de54c3592e80a634a2b9e1a7f | affected | git | 00d873c17e29cc32d90ca852b82685f1673acaa5 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.7 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.2.16 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.2.* | None listed |
| 6.3.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.3.* | None listed |
| 6.4 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |