Bug 2420378 (CVE-2023-53835)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-53835 kernel: ext4: don't clear SB_RDONLY when remounting r/w until quota is re-enabled | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability-draft | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: don't clear SB_RDONLY when remounting r/w until quota is re-enabled When a file system currently mounted read/only is remounted read/write, if we clear the SB_RDONLY flag too early, before the quota is initialized, and there is another process/thread constantly attempting to create a directory, it's possible to trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE(dquot_initialize_needed(inode)); in ext4_xattr_block_set(), with the following stack trace: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5338 at fs/ext4/xattr.c:2141 ext4_xattr_block_set+0x2ef2/0x3680 RIP: 0010:ext4_xattr_block_set+0x2ef2/0x3680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2141 Call Trace: ext4_xattr_set_handle+0xcd4/0x15c0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2458 ext4_initxattrs+0xa3/0x110 fs/ext4/xattr_security.c:44 security_inode_init_security+0x2df/0x3f0 security/security.c:1147 __ext4_new_inode+0x347e/0x43d0 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1324 ext4_mkdir+0x425/0xce0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2992 vfs_mkdir+0x29d/0x450 fs/namei.c:4038 do_mkdirat+0x264/0x520 fs/namei.c:4061 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4076 [inline] __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4074 [inline] __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x89/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4074