Bug 2426196 (CVE-2023-54194) - CVE-2023-54194 kernel: exfat: use kvmalloc_array/kvfree instead of kmalloc_array/kfree
Summary: CVE-2023-54194 kernel: exfat: use kvmalloc_array/kvfree instead of kmalloc_ar...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54194
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-30 13:15 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-31 02:14 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:15:43 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exfat: use kvmalloc_array/kvfree instead of kmalloc_array/kfree

The call stack shown below is a scenario in the Linux 4.19 kernel.
Allocating memory failed where exfat fs use kmalloc_array due to
system memory fragmentation, while the u-disk was inserted without
recognition.
Devices such as u-disk using the exfat file system are pluggable and
may be insert into the system at any time.
However, long-term running systems cannot guarantee the continuity of
physical memory. Therefore, it's necessary to address this issue.

Binder:2632_6: page allocation failure: order:4,
 mode:0x6040c0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null)
Call trace:
[242178.097582]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x4
[242178.097589]  dump_stack+0xf4/0x134
[242178.097598]  warn_alloc+0xd8/0x144
[242178.097603]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1364/0x1384
[242178.097608]  kmalloc_order+0x2c/0x510
[242178.097612]  kmalloc_order_trace+0x40/0x16c
[242178.097618]  __kmalloc+0x360/0x408
[242178.097624]  load_alloc_bitmap+0x160/0x284
[242178.097628]  exfat_fill_super+0xa3c/0xe7c
[242178.097635]  mount_bdev+0x2e8/0x3a0
[242178.097638]  exfat_fs_mount+0x40/0x50
[242178.097643]  mount_fs+0x138/0x2e8
[242178.097649]  vfs_kern_mount+0x90/0x270
[242178.097655]  do_mount+0x798/0x173c
[242178.097659]  ksys_mount+0x114/0x1ac
[242178.097665]  __arm64_sys_mount+0x24/0x34
[242178.097671]  el0_svc_common+0xb8/0x1b8
[242178.097676]  el0_svc_handler+0x74/0x90
[242178.097681]  el0_svc+0x8/0x340

By analyzing the exfat code,we found that continuous physical memory
is not required here,so kvmalloc_array is used can solve this problem.


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