Bug 2395883 (CVE-2023-53323) - CVE-2023-53323 kernel: ext2/dax: Fix ext2_setsize when len is page aligned
Summary: CVE-2023-53323 kernel: ext2/dax: Fix ext2_setsize when len is page aligned
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53323
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-16 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-16 17:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-16 17:03:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext2/dax: Fix ext2_setsize when len is page aligned

PAGE_ALIGN(x) macro gives the next highest value which is multiple of
pagesize. But if x is already page aligned then it simply returns x.
So, if x passed is 0 in dax_zero_range() function, that means the
length gets passed as 0 to ->iomap_begin().

In ext2 it then calls ext2_get_blocks -> max_blocks as 0 and hits bug_on
here in ext2_get_blocks().
	BUG_ON(maxblocks == 0);

Instead we should be calling dax_truncate_page() here which takes
care of it. i.e. it only calls dax_zero_range if the offset is not
page/block aligned.

This can be easily triggered with following on fsdax mounted pmem
device.

dd if=/dev/zero of=file count=1 bs=512
truncate -s 0 file

[79.525838] EXT2-fs (pmem0): DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk
[79.529376] ext2 filesystem being mounted at /mnt1/test supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff)
[93.793207] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[93.795102] kernel BUG at fs/ext2/inode.c:637!
[93.796904] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[93.798659] CPU: 0 PID: 1192 Comm: truncate Not tainted 6.3.0-rc2-xfstests-00056-g131086faa369 #139
[93.806459] RIP: 0010:ext2_get_blocks.constprop.0+0x524/0x610
<...>
[93.835298] Call Trace:
[93.836253]  <TASK>
[93.837103]  ? lock_acquire+0xf8/0x110
[93.838479]  ? d_lookup+0x69/0xd0
[93.839779]  ext2_iomap_begin+0xa7/0x1c0
[93.841154]  iomap_iter+0xc7/0x150
[93.842425]  dax_zero_range+0x6e/0xa0
[93.843813]  ext2_setsize+0x176/0x1b0
[93.845164]  ext2_setattr+0x151/0x200
[93.846467]  notify_change+0x341/0x4e0
[93.847805]  ? lock_acquire+0xf8/0x110
[93.849143]  ? do_truncate+0x74/0xe0
[93.850452]  ? do_truncate+0x84/0xe0
[93.851739]  do_truncate+0x84/0xe0
[93.852974]  do_sys_ftruncate+0x2b4/0x2f0
[93.854404]  do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[93.855789]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc


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