Bug 2396131 (CVE-2023-53360) - CVE-2023-53360 kernel: NFSv4.2: Rework scratch handling for READ_PLUS (again)
Summary: CVE-2023-53360 kernel: NFSv4.2: Rework scratch handling for READ_PLUS (again)
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53360
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-17 15:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-22 18:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-17 15:03:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFSv4.2: Rework scratch handling for READ_PLUS (again)

I found that the read code might send multiple requests using the same
nfs_pgio_header, but nfs4_proc_read_setup() is only called once. This is
how we ended up occasionally double-freeing the scratch buffer, but also
means we set a NULL pointer but non-zero length to the xdr scratch
buffer. This results in an oops the first time decoding needs to copy
something to scratch, which frequently happens when decoding READ_PLUS
hole segments.

I fix this by moving scratch handling into the pageio read code. I
provide a function to allocate scratch space for decoding read replies,
and free the scratch buffer when the nfs_pgio_header is freed.


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