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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53224"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:21:53.061Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:40:39.797Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53224"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53224.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53224"
title: "ext4: Fix function prototype mismatch for ext4_feat_ktype"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: Fix function prototype mismatch for ext4_feat_ktype\n\nWith clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),\nindirect call targets are validated against the expected function\npointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate\nROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,\nwhich manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed.\n\next4_feat_ktype was setting the \"release\" handler to \"kfree\", which\ndoesn't have a matching function prototype. Add a simple wrapper\nwith the correct prototype.\n\nThis was found as a result of Clang's new -Wcast-function-type-strict\nflag, which is more sensitive than the simpler -Wcast-function-type,\nwhich only checks for type width mismatches.\n\nNote that this code is only reached when ext4 is a loadable module and\nit is being unloaded:\n\n CFI failure at kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0 (target: kfree+0x0/0x180; expected type: 0x7c4aa698)\n ...\n RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0\n ...\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  ext4_exit_sysfs+0x14/0x60 [ext4]\n  cleanup_module+0x67/0xedb [ext4]"
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