linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53306: fsdax: force clear dirty mark if CoW

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Message-ID: <2025091641-CVE-2023-53306-b665@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:11:51 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53306: fsdax: force clear dirty mark if CoW

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

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

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

fsdax: force clear dirty mark if CoW

XFS allows CoW on non-shared extents to combat fragmentation[1].  The old
non-shared extent could be mwrited before, its dax entry is marked dirty. 

This results in a WARNing:

[   28.512349] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   28.512622] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 5255 at fs/dax.c:390 dax_insert_entry+0x342/0x390
[   28.513050] Modules linked in: rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 nfs lockd grace fscache netfs nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_set nf_tables
[   28.515462] CPU: 2 PID: 5255 Comm: fsstress Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-00001-g85e1481e19c1-dirty #117
[   28.515902] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.1-1-1 04/01/2014
[   28.516307] RIP: 0010:dax_insert_entry+0x342/0x390
[   28.516536] Code: 30 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 45 20 48 83 c0 01 e9 e2 fe ff ff 48 8b 45 20 48 83 c0 01 e9 cd fe ff ff <0f> 0b e9 53 ff ff ff 48 8b 7c 24 08 31 f6 e8 1b 61 a1 00 eb 8c 48
[   28.517417] RSP: 0000:ffffc9000845fb18 EFLAGS: 00010086
[   28.517721] RAX: 0000000000000053 RBX: 0000000000000155 RCX: 000000000018824b
[   28.518113] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff827525a6 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
[   28.518515] RBP: ffffea00062092c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000845f9c8
[   28.518905] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffff82ddb7e8 R12: 0000000000000155
[   28.519301] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000018824b R15: ffff88810cfa76b8
[   28.519703] FS:  00007f14a0c94740(0000) GS:ffff88817bd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   28.520148] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   28.520472] CR2: 00007f14a0c8d000 CR3: 000000010321c004 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[   28.520863] PKRU: 55555554
[   28.521043] Call Trace:
[   28.521219]  <TASK>
[   28.521368]  dax_fault_iter+0x196/0x390
[   28.521595]  dax_iomap_pte_fault+0x19b/0x3d0
[   28.521852]  __xfs_filemap_fault+0x234/0x2b0
[   28.522116]  __do_fault+0x30/0x130
[   28.522334]  do_fault+0x193/0x340
[   28.522586]  __handle_mm_fault+0x2d3/0x690
[   28.522975]  handle_mm_fault+0xe6/0x2c0
[   28.523259]  do_user_addr_fault+0x1bc/0x6f0
[   28.523521]  exc_page_fault+0x60/0x140
[   28.523763]  asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[   28.524001] RIP: 0033:0x7f14a0b589ca
[   28.524225] Code: c5 fe 7f 07 c5 fe 7f 47 20 c5 fe 7f 47 40 c5 fe 7f 47 60 c5 f8 77 c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 40 0f b6 c6 48 89 d1 48 89 fa <f3> aa 48 89 d0 c5 f8 77 c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90
[   28.525198] RSP: 002b:00007fff1dea1c98 EFLAGS: 00010202
[   28.525505] RAX: 000000000000001e RBX: 000000000014a000 RCX: 0000000000006046
[   28.525895] RDX: 00007f14a0c82000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 00007f14a0c8d000
[   28.526290] RBP: 000000000000006f R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 000000000014a000
[   28.526681] R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 028f5c28f5c28f5c
[   28.527067] R13: 8f5c28f5c28f5c29 R14: 0000000000011046 R15: 00007f14a0c946c0
[   28.527449]  </TASK>
[   28.527600] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---


To be able to delete this entry, clear its dirty mark before
invalidate_inode_pages2_range().

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20230321151339.GA11376@frogsfrogsfrogs/

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53306 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit f80e1668888f34c0764822e74953c997daf2ccdb and fixed in 6.2.11 with commit fac05f800abb63dc4d7cc48fe7edf16e0520dc1f
	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit f80e1668888f34c0764822e74953c997daf2ccdb and fixed in 6.3 with commit f76b3a32879de215ced3f8c754c4077b0c2f79e3

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-2023-53306
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/dax.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/fac05f800abb63dc4d7cc48fe7edf16e0520dc1f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76b3a32879de215ced3f8c754c4077b0c2f79e3