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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53791"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:00:48.301Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:51:35.874Z"
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-2023-53791"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53791.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53791"
title: "md: fix warning for holder mismatch from export_rdev()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd: fix warning for holder mismatch from export_rdev()\n\nCommit a1d767191096 (\"md: use mddev-\u003eexternal to select holder in\nexport_rdev()\") fix the problem that 'claim_rdev' is used for\nblkdev_get_by_dev() while 'rdev' is used for blkdev_put().\n\nHowever, if mddev-\u003eexternal is changed from 0 to 1, then 'rdev' is used\nfor blkdev_get_by_dev() while 'claim_rdev' is used for blkdev_put(). And\nthis problem can be reporduced reliably by following:\n\nNew file: mdadm/tests/23rdev-lifetime\n\ndevname=${dev0##*/}\ndevt=`cat /sys/block/$devname/dev`\npid=\"\"\nruntime=2\n\nclean_up_test() {\n        pill -9 $pid\n        echo clear \u003e /sys/block/md0/md/array_state\n}\n\ntrap 'clean_up_test' EXIT\n\nadd_by_sysfs() {\n        while true; do\n                echo $devt \u003e /sys/block/md0/md/new_dev\n        done\n}\n\nremove_by_sysfs(){\n        while true; do\n                echo remove \u003e /sys/block/md0/md/dev-${devname}/state\n        done\n}\n\necho md0 \u003e /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/new_array || die \"create md0 failed\"\n\nadd_by_sysfs &\npid=\"$pid $!\"\n\nremove_by_sysfs &\npid=\"$pid $!\"\n\nsleep $runtime\nexit 0\n\nTest cmd:\n\n./test --save-logs --logdir=/tmp/ --keep-going --dev=loop --tests=23rdev-lifetime\n\nTest result:\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 960 at block/bdev.c:618 blkdev_put+0x27c/0x330\nModules linked in: multipath md_mod loop\nCPU: 0 PID: 960 Comm: test Not tainted 6.5.0-rc2-00121-g01e55c376936-dirty #50\nRIP: 0010:blkdev_put+0x27c/0x330\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n export_rdev.isra.23+0x50/0xa0 [md_mod]\n mddev_unlock+0x19d/0x300 [md_mod]\n rdev_attr_store+0xec/0x190 [md_mod]\n sysfs_kf_write+0x52/0x70\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x19a/0x2a0\n vfs_write+0x3b5/0x770\n ksys_write+0x74/0x150\n __x64_sys_write+0x22/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x40/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nFix the problem by recording if 'rdev' is used as holder."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a1d7671910965ca9f8f0377e7e3bfd1179fba4d8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99fcd427178d0f58f5520f8f01df727f8eaeb2c7"},{"version":"a1d7671910965ca9f8f0377e7e3bfd1179fba4d8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99892147f028d711f9d40fefad4f33632593864c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.5"},{"version":"6.5.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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