Bug 2425125 (CVE-2023-54089) - CVE-2023-54089 kernel: virtio_pmem: add the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio
Summary: CVE-2023-54089 kernel: virtio_pmem: add the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54089
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 14:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-02 14:33 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 14:04:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virtio_pmem: add the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio

When doing mkfs.xfs on a pmem device, the following warning was

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 384 at block/blk-core.c:751 submit_bio_noacct
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 2 PID: 384 Comm: mkfs.xfs Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7+ #154
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
 RIP: 0010:submit_bio_noacct+0x340/0x520
 ......
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? submit_bio_noacct+0xd5/0x520
  submit_bio+0x37/0x60
  async_pmem_flush+0x79/0xa0
  nvdimm_flush+0x17/0x40
  pmem_submit_bio+0x370/0x390
  __submit_bio+0xbc/0x190
  submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x14d/0x370
  submit_bio_noacct+0x1ef/0x520
  submit_bio+0x55/0x60
  submit_bio_wait+0x5a/0xc0
  blkdev_issue_flush+0x44/0x60

The root cause is that submit_bio_noacct() needs bio_op() is either
WRITE or ZONE_APPEND for flush bio and async_pmem_flush() doesn't assign
REQ_OP_WRITE when allocating flush bio, so submit_bio_noacct just fail
the flush bio.

Simply fix it by adding the missing REQ_OP_WRITE for flush bio. And we
could fix the flush order issue and do flush optimization later.


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