Bug 2425063 (CVE-2023-54069) - CVE-2023-54069 kernel: ext4: fix BUG in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() due to overflow
Summary: CVE-2023-54069 kernel: ext4: fix BUG in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() due to overflow
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54069
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 13:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-25 05:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 13:05:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix BUG in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() due to overflow

When we calculate the end position of ext4_free_extent, this position may
be exactly where ext4_lblk_t (i.e. uint) overflows. For example, if
ac_g_ex.fe_logical is 4294965248 and ac_orig_goal_len is 2048, then the
computed end is 0x100000000, which is 0. If ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical is not
the first case of adjusting the best extent, that is, new_bex_end > 0, the
following BUG_ON will be triggered:

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kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5116!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 3 PID: 673 Comm: xfs_io Tainted: G E 6.5.0-rc1+ #279
RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0xc5/0x430
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ext4_mb_use_best_found+0x203/0x2f0
 ext4_mb_try_best_found+0x163/0x240
 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x158/0x1550
 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x86a/0xe10
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xb0c/0x13a0
 ext4_map_blocks+0x2cd/0x8f0
 ext4_iomap_begin+0x27b/0x400
 iomap_iter+0x222/0x3d0
 __iomap_dio_rw+0x243/0xcb0
 iomap_dio_rw+0x16/0x80
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A simple reproducer demonstrating the problem:

	mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda -b 4096 100M
	mount /dev/sda /tmp/test
	fallocate -l1M /tmp/test/tmp
	fallocate -l10M /tmp/test/file
	fallocate -i -o 1M -l16777203M /tmp/test/file
	fsstress -d /tmp/test -l 0 -n 100000 -p 8 &
	sleep 10 && killall -9 fsstress
	rm -f /tmp/test/tmp
	xfs_io -c "open -ad /tmp/test/file" -c "pwrite -S 0xff 0 8192"

We simply refactor the logic for adjusting the best extent by adding
a temporary ext4_free_extent ex and use extent_logical_end() to avoid
overflow, which also simplifies the code.


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