Bug 2420378 (CVE-2023-53835) - CVE-2023-53835 kernel: ext4: don't clear SB_RDONLY when remounting r/w until quota is re-enabled
Summary: CVE-2023-53835 kernel: ext4: don't clear SB_RDONLY when remounting r/w until ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53835
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability-draft
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 02:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-09 20:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:06:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: don't clear SB_RDONLY when remounting r/w until quota is re-enabled

When a file system currently mounted read/only is remounted
read/write, if we clear the SB_RDONLY flag too early, before the quota
is initialized, and there is another process/thread constantly
attempting to create a directory, it's possible to trigger the

	WARN_ON_ONCE(dquot_initialize_needed(inode));

in ext4_xattr_block_set(), with the following stack trace:

   WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5338 at fs/ext4/xattr.c:2141 ext4_xattr_block_set+0x2ef2/0x3680
   RIP: 0010:ext4_xattr_block_set+0x2ef2/0x3680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2141
   Call Trace:
    ext4_xattr_set_handle+0xcd4/0x15c0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2458
    ext4_initxattrs+0xa3/0x110 fs/ext4/xattr_security.c:44
    security_inode_init_security+0x2df/0x3f0 security/security.c:1147
    __ext4_new_inode+0x347e/0x43d0 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1324
    ext4_mkdir+0x425/0xce0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2992
    vfs_mkdir+0x29d/0x450 fs/namei.c:4038
    do_mkdirat+0x264/0x520 fs/namei.c:4061
    __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4076 [inline]
    __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4074 [inline]
    __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x89/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4074


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