linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53231: erofs: Fix detection of atomic context

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Message-ID: <2025091514-CVE-2023-53231-7743@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:22:05 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53231: erofs: Fix detection of atomic context

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

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

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

erofs: Fix detection of atomic context

Current check for atomic context is not sufficient as
z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio can be called under rcu lock
from blk_mq_flush_plug_list(). See the stacktrace [1]

In such case we should hand off the decompression work for async
processing rather than trying to do sync decompression in current
context. Patch fixes the detection by checking for
rcu_read_lock_any_held() and while at it use more appropriate
!in_task() check than in_atomic().

Background: Historically erofs would always schedule a kworker for
decompression which would incur the scheduling cost regardless of
the context. But z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio() may not always
be in atomic context and we could actually benefit from doing the
decompression in z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio() if we are in
thread context, for example when running with dm-verity.
This optimization was later added in patch [2] which has shown
improvement in performance benchmarks.

==============================================
[1] Problem stacktrace
[name:core&]BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:291
[name:core&]in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1615, name: CpuMonitorServi
[name:core&]preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
[name:core&]RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
CPU: 7 PID: 1615 Comm: CpuMonitorServi Tainted: G S      W  OE      6.1.25-android14-5-maybe-dirty-mainline #1
Hardware name: MT6897 (DT)
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x108/0x15c
 show_stack+0x20/0x30
 dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0x8c
 dump_stack+0x20/0x48
 __might_resched+0x1fc/0x308
 __might_sleep+0x50/0x88
 mutex_lock+0x2c/0x110
 z_erofs_decompress_queue+0x11c/0xc10
 z_erofs_decompress_kickoff+0x110/0x1a4
 z_erofs_decompressqueue_endio+0x154/0x180
 bio_endio+0x1b0/0x1d8
 __dm_io_complete+0x22c/0x280
 clone_endio+0xe4/0x280
 bio_endio+0x1b0/0x1d8
 blk_update_request+0x138/0x3a4
 blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0xd4/0x19c
 blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x2b0/0x354
 __blk_flush_plug+0x110/0x160
 blk_finish_plug+0x30/0x4c
 read_pages+0x2fc/0x370
 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0xa4/0x23c
 page_cache_ra_order+0x290/0x320
 do_sync_mmap_readahead+0x108/0x2c0
 filemap_fault+0x19c/0x52c
 __do_fault+0xc4/0x114
 handle_mm_fault+0x5b4/0x1168
 do_page_fault+0x338/0x4b4
 do_translation_fault+0x40/0x60
 do_mem_abort+0x60/0xc8
 el0_da+0x4c/0xe0
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xd4/0xfc
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4

[2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210317035448.13921-1-huangjianan@oppo.com/

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53231 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.4.7 with commit 597fb60c75132719687e173b75cab8f6eb1ca657
	Fixed in 6.5 with commit 12d0a24afd9ea58e581ea64d64e066f2027b28d9

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-2023-53231
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/erofs/zdata.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/597fb60c75132719687e173b75cab8f6eb1ca657
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12d0a24afd9ea58e581ea64d64e066f2027b28d9