Bug 2395280 (CVE-2023-53171) - CVE-2023-53171 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in vfio/type1 due to locked_vm underflow
Summary: CVE-2023-53171 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in vfio/type1 due to l...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53171
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-15 15:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-06 19:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:04:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()

When a vfio container is preserved across exec, the task does not change,
but it gets a new mm with locked_vm=0, and loses the count from existing
dma mappings.  If the user later unmaps a dma mapping, locked_vm underflows
to a large unsigned value, and a subsequent dma map request fails with
ENOMEM in __account_locked_vm.

To avoid underflow, grab and save the mm at the time a dma is mapped.
Use that mm when adjusting locked_vm, rather than re-acquiring the saved
task's mm, which may have changed.  If the saved mm is dead, do nothing.

locked_vm is incremented for existing mappings in a subsequent patch.


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