CVE-2023-53511 (GCVE-0-2023-53511)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:46 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:29
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Title
io_uring: fix fget leak when fs don't support nowait buffered read
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring: fix fget leak when fs don't support nowait buffered read
Heming reported a BUG when using io_uring doing link-cp on ocfs2. [1]
Do the following steps can reproduce this BUG:
mount -t ocfs2 /dev/vdc /mnt/ocfs2
cp testfile /mnt/ocfs2/
./link-cp /mnt/ocfs2/testfile /mnt/ocfs2/testfile.1
umount /mnt/ocfs2
Then umount will fail, and it outputs:
umount: /mnt/ocfs2: target is busy.
While tracing umount, it blames mnt_get_count() not return as expected.
Do a deep investigation for fget()/fput() on related code flow, I've
finally found that fget() leaks since ocfs2 doesn't support nowait
buffered read.
io_issue_sqe
|-io_assign_file // do fget() first
|-io_read
|-io_iter_do_read
|-ocfs2_file_read_iter // return -EOPNOTSUPP
|-kiocb_done
|-io_rw_done
|-__io_complete_rw_common // set REQ_F_REISSUE
|-io_resubmit_prep
|-io_req_prep_async // override req->file, leak happens
This was introduced by commit a196c78b5443 in v5.18. Fix it by don't
re-assign req->file if it has already been assigned.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/ocfs2-devel/ab580a75-91c8-d68a-3455-40361be1bfa8@linux.alibaba.com/T/#t
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
a196c78b5443fc61af2c0490213b9d125482cbd1 , < 75a499fc9d66a32271e2b3e4ca71156e8ad3b484
(git)
Affected: a196c78b5443fc61af2c0490213b9d125482cbd1 , < 10fb2e16ee6ffaf1716b9e90d007e6b300bfa457 (git) Affected: a196c78b5443fc61af2c0490213b9d125482cbd1 , < 54aa7f2330b82884f4a1afce0220add6e8312f8b (git) Affected: cef27a7d36026bd3c86f4fdfb4611ebbe2814af4 (git) Affected: 5.17.9 , < 5.18 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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