linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53100: ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_update_inline

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Message-ID: <2025050223-CVE-2023-53100-f480@gregkh>
Date: Fri,  2 May 2025 17:56:05 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53100: ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_update_inline_data

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix WARNING in ext4_update_inline_data

Syzbot found the following issue:
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 without journal. Quota mode: none.
fscrypt: AES-256-CTS-CBC using implementation "cts-cbc-aes-aesni"
fscrypt: AES-256-XTS using implementation "xts-aes-aesni"
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5071 at mm/page_alloc.c:5525 __alloc_pages+0x30a/0x560 mm/page_alloc.c:5525
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 5071 Comm: syz-executor263 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x30a/0x560 mm/page_alloc.c:5525
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c2f1c0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffc90003c2f220 RBX: 0000000000000014 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000028 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc90003c2f248
RBP: ffffc90003c2f2d8 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffc90003c2f220
R10: fffff52000785e49 R11: 1ffff92000785e44 R12: 0000000000040d40
R13: 1ffff92000785e40 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff92000785e3c
FS:  0000555556c0d300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f95d5e04138 CR3: 00000000793aa000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:237 [inline]
 alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_large_node+0x95/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:1113
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:956 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xfe/0x190 mm/slab_common.c:981
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:584 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:720 [inline]
 ext4_update_inline_data+0x236/0x6b0 fs/ext4/inline.c:346
 ext4_update_inline_dir fs/ext4/inline.c:1115 [inline]
 ext4_try_add_inline_entry+0x328/0x990 fs/ext4/inline.c:1307
 ext4_add_entry+0x5a4/0xeb0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2385
 ext4_add_nondir+0x96/0x260 fs/ext4/namei.c:2772
 ext4_create+0x36c/0x560 fs/ext4/namei.c:2817
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3413 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline]
 path_openat+0x12ac/0x2dd0 fs/namei.c:3711
 do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3741
 do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1342 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1337 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x243/0x290 fs/open.c:1337
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Above issue happens as follows:
ext4_iget
   ext4_find_inline_data_nolock ->i_inline_off=164 i_inline_size=60
ext4_try_add_inline_entry
   __ext4_mark_inode_dirty
      ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea ->i_extra_isize=32 s_want_extra_isize=44
         ext4_xattr_shift_entries
	 ->after shift i_inline_off is incorrect, actually is change to 176
ext4_try_add_inline_entry
  ext4_update_inline_dir
    get_max_inline_xattr_value_size
      if (EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off)
	entry = (struct ext4_xattr_entry *)((void *)raw_inode +
			EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off);
        free += EXT4_XATTR_SIZE(le32_to_cpu(entry->e_value_size));
	->As entry is incorrect, then 'free' may be negative
   ext4_update_inline_data
      value = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
      -> len is unsigned int, maybe very large, then trigger warning when
         'kzalloc()'

To resolve the above issue we need to update 'i_inline_off' after
'ext4_xattr_shift_entries()'.  We do not need to set
EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag here, since ext4_mark_inode_dirty()
already sets this flag if needed.  Setting EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA
when it is needed may trigger a BUG_ON in ext4_writepages().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53100 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 4.14.310 with commit c5aa102b433b1890e1ccaa40c06826c77dda1665
	Fixed in 4.19.278 with commit 39c5df2ca544368b44b59d0f6d80131e90763371
	Fixed in 5.4.237 with commit 74d775083e9f3d9dadf9e3b5f3e0028d1ad0bd5c
	Fixed in 5.10.175 with commit a9bd94f67b27739bbe8583c52256502bd4cc7e83
	Fixed in 5.15.103 with commit ca500cf2eceb5a8e93bf71ab97b5f7a18ecabce2
	Fixed in 6.1.20 with commit 35161cec76772f74526f5886ad4082ec48511d5c
	Fixed in 6.2.7 with commit 92eee6a82a9a6f9f83559e17a2b6b935e1a5cd25
	Fixed in 6.3 with commit 2b96b4a5d9443ca4cad58b0040be455803c05a42

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53100
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/ext4/xattr.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5aa102b433b1890e1ccaa40c06826c77dda1665
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39c5df2ca544368b44b59d0f6d80131e90763371
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74d775083e9f3d9dadf9e3b5f3e0028d1ad0bd5c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9bd94f67b27739bbe8583c52256502bd4cc7e83
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca500cf2eceb5a8e93bf71ab97b5f7a18ecabce2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35161cec76772f74526f5886ad4082ec48511d5c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92eee6a82a9a6f9f83559e17a2b6b935e1a5cd25
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b96b4a5d9443ca4cad58b0040be455803c05a42