linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53576: null_blk: Always check queue mode setting from configfs

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Message-ID: <2025100454-CVE-2023-53576-c5dd@gregkh>
Date: Sat,  4 Oct 2025 17:17:30 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53576: null_blk: Always check queue mode setting from configfs

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

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

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

null_blk: Always check queue mode setting from configfs

Make sure to check device queue mode in the null_validate_conf() and
return error for NULL_Q_RQ as we don't allow legacy I/O path, without
this patch we get OOPs when queue mode is set to 1 from configfs,
following are repro steps :-

modprobe null_blk nr_devices=0
mkdir config/nullb/nullb0
echo 1 > config/nullb/nullb0/memory_backed
echo 4096 > config/nullb/nullb0/blocksize
echo 20480 > config/nullb/nullb0/size
echo 1 > config/nullb/nullb0/queue_mode
echo 1 > config/nullb/nullb0/power

Entering kdb (current=0xffff88810acdd080, pid 2372) on processor 42 Oops: (null)
due to oops @ 0xffffffffc041c329
CPU: 42 PID: 2372 Comm: sh Tainted: G           O     N 6.3.0-rc5lblk+ #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:null_add_dev.part.0+0xd9/0x720 [null_blk]
Code: 01 00 00 85 d2 0f 85 a1 03 00 00 48 83 bb 08 01 00 00 00 0f 85 f7 03 00 00 80 bb 62 01 00 00 00 48 8b 75 20 0f 85 6d 02 00 00 <48> 89 6e 60 48 8b 75 20 bf 06 00 00 00 e8 f5 37 2c c1 48 8b 75 20
RSP: 0018:ffffc900052cbde0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88811084d800 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888100042e00
RBP: ffff8881053d8200 R08: ffffc900052cbd68 R09: ffff888105db2000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffff888104765200 R14: ffff88810eec1748 R15: ffff88810eec1740
FS:  00007fd445fd1740(0000) GS:ffff8897dfc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000060 CR3: 0000000166a00000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
DR0: ffffffff8437a488 DR1: ffffffff8437a489 DR2: ffffffff8437a48a
DR3: ffffffff8437a48b DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 nullb_device_power_store+0xd1/0x120 [null_blk]
 configfs_write_iter+0xb4/0x120
 vfs_write+0x2ba/0x3c0
 ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
RIP: 0033:0x7fd4460c57a7
Code: 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24
RSP: 002b:00007ffd3792a4a8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007fd4460c57a7
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 000055b43c02e4c0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 000055b43c02e4c0 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00007fd44615b4e0
R10: 00007fd44615b3e0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007fd446198520 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 00007fd446198700
 </TASK>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53576 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 5.10.181 with commit e732a266b973cd4e115e2cc2ea5007119e8a7fbc
	Fixed in 5.15.113 with commit 35e304dbcefa95237a3d6f94c007bfb10f012b17
	Fixed in 6.1.30 with commit fd35b7bb6d5a329c427924886949ab51f210200a
	Fixed in 6.3.4 with commit 651260e563d9f50827dac496dc8a0b9b23d5db1a
	Fixed in 6.4 with commit 63f8793ee60513a09f110ea460a6ff2c33811cdb

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-2023-53576
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:
	drivers/block/null_blk/main.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/e732a266b973cd4e115e2cc2ea5007119e8a7fbc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35e304dbcefa95237a3d6f94c007bfb10f012b17
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd35b7bb6d5a329c427924886949ab51f210200a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/651260e563d9f50827dac496dc8a0b9b23d5db1a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63f8793ee60513a09f110ea460a6ff2c33811cdb