Bug 2396500 (CVE-2023-53421) - CVE-2023-53421 kernel: blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in blkcg_reset_stats()
Summary: CVE-2023-53421 kernel: blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in b...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53421
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-18 17:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-18 19:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 17:01:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in blkcg_reset_stats()

When blkg_alloc() is called to allocate a blkcg_gq structure
with the associated blkg_iostat_set's, there are 2 fields within
blkg_iostat_set that requires proper initialization - blkg & sync.
The former field was introduced by commit 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup:
Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()") while the later one was introduced by
commit f73316482977 ("blk-cgroup: reimplement basic IO stats using
cgroup rstat").

Unfortunately those fields in the blkg_iostat_set's are not properly
re-initialized when they are cleared in v1's blkcg_reset_stats(). This
can lead to a kernel panic due to NULL pointer access of the blkg
pointer. The missing initialization of sync is less problematic and
can be a problem in a debug kernel due to missing lockdep initialization.

Fix these problems by re-initializing them after memory clearing.


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