Bug 2402268 (CVE-2023-53620) - CVE-2023-53620 kernel: md: fix soft lockup in status_resync
Summary: CVE-2023-53620 kernel: md: fix soft lockup in status_resync
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53620
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-07 16:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 18:14 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-07 16:06:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md: fix soft lockup in status_resync

status_resync() will calculate 'curr_resync - recovery_active' to show
user a progress bar like following:

[============>........]  resync = 61.4%

'curr_resync' and 'recovery_active' is updated in md_do_sync(), and
status_resync() can read them concurrently, hence it's possible that
'curr_resync - recovery_active' can overflow to a huge number. In this
case status_resync() will be stuck in the loop to print a large amount
of '=', which will end up soft lockup.

Fix the problem by setting 'resync' to MD_RESYNC_ACTIVE in this case,
this way resync in progress will be reported to user.

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-10-07 20:36:57 UTC Comment hidden (spam)

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