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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53317"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T16:11:53.877Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:42:36.536Z"
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-2023-53317"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53317.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53317"
title: "ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent\n\nSyzbot found the following issue:\n\nEXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation, dioread_nolock, O_DIRECT and fast_commit support!\nEXT4-fs (loop0): orphan cleanup on readonly fs\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 1 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor307 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022\nRIP: 0010:mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869\nRSP: 0018:ffffc90003c9e098 EFLAGS: 00010293\nRAX: ffffffff82405731 RBX: 0000000000000041 RCX: ffff8880783457c0\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000041 RDI: 0000000000000040\nRBP: 0000000000000040 R08: ffffffff82405723 R09: ffffed10053c9402\nR10: ffffed10053c9402 R11: 1ffff110053c9401 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffffc90003c9e538 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc90003c9e2cc\nFS:  0000555556665300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 000056312f6796f8 CR3: 0000000022437000 CR4: 00000000003506e0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x353/0x1100 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2307\n ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x1533/0x3860 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2735\n ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xddf/0x3db0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5605\n ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1868/0x6880 fs/ext4/extents.c:4286\n ext4_map_blocks+0xa49/0x1cc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:651\n ext4_getblk+0x1b9/0x770 fs/ext4/inode.c:864\n ext4_bread+0x2a/0x170 fs/ext4/inode.c:920\n ext4_quota_write+0x225/0x570 fs/ext4/super.c:7105\n write_blk fs/quota/quota_tree.c:64 [inline]\n get_free_dqblk+0x34a/0x6d0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:130\n do_insert_tree+0x26b/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:340\n do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375\n do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375\n do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375\n dq_insert_tree fs/quota/quota_tree.c:401 [inline]\n qtree_write_dquot+0x3b6/0x530 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:420\n v2_write_dquot+0x11b/0x190 fs/quota/quota_v2.c:358\n dquot_acquire+0x348/0x670 fs/quota/dquot.c:444\n ext4_acquire_dquot+0x2dc/0x400 fs/ext4/super.c:6740\n dqget+0x999/0xdc0 fs/quota/dquot.c:914\n __dquot_initialize+0x3d0/0xcf0 fs/quota/dquot.c:1492\n ext4_process_orphan+0x57/0x2d0 fs/ext4/orphan.c:329\n ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xb60/0x1340 fs/ext4/orphan.c:474\n __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5516 [inline]\n ext4_fill_super+0x81cd/0x8700 fs/ext4/super.c:5644\n get_tree_bdev+0x400/0x620 fs/super.c:1282\n vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1489\n do_new_mount+0x289/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3145\n do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline]\n __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline]\n __se_sys_mount+0x2d3/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3674\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nAdd some debug information:\nmb_find_extent: mb_find_extent block=41, order=0 needed=64 next=0 ex=0/41/1@3735929054 64 64 7\nblock_bitmap: ff 3f 0c 00 fc 01 00 00 d2 3d 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n\nAcctually, blocks per group is 64, but block bitmap indicate at least has\n128 blocks. Now, ext4_validate_block_bitmap() didn't check invalid block's\nbitmap if set.\nTo resolve above issue, add check like fsck \"Padding at end of block bitmap is\nnot set\"."
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