Message-ID: <2025120904-CVE-2023-53860-3722@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  9 Dec 2025 10:31:44 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53860: dm: don't attempt to queue IO under RCU protection

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

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

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

dm: don't attempt to queue IO under RCU protection

dm looks up the table for IO based on the request type, with an
assumption that if the request is marked REQ_NOWAIT, it's fine to
attempt to submit that IO while under RCU read lock protection. This
is not OK, as REQ_NOWAIT just means that we should not be sleeping
waiting on other IO, it does not mean that we can't potentially
schedule.

A simple test case demonstrates this quite nicely:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        struct iovec iov;
        int fd;

        fd = open("/dev/dm-0", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT);
        posix_memalign(&iov.iov_base, 4096, 4096);
        iov.iov_len = 4096;
        preadv2(fd, &iov, 1, 0, RWF_NOWAIT);
        return 0;
}

which will instantly spew:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:306
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 5580, name: dm-nowait
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
CPU: 7 PID: 5580 Comm: dm-nowait Not tainted 6.6.0-rc1-g39956d2dcd81 #132
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x11d/0x1b0
 __might_resched+0x3c3/0x5e0
 ? preempt_count_sub+0x150/0x150
 mempool_alloc+0x1e2/0x390
 ? mempool_resize+0x7d0/0x7d0
 ? lock_sync+0x190/0x190
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x868/0x2d40
 bio_alloc_bioset+0x417/0x8c0
 ? bvec_alloc+0x200/0x200
 ? internal_get_user_pages_fast+0xb8c/0x2d40
 bio_alloc_clone+0x53/0x100
 dm_submit_bio+0x27f/0x1a20
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? blk_try_enter_queue+0x1a0/0x4d0
 ? dm_dax_direct_access+0x260/0x260
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? blk_try_enter_queue+0x1cc/0x4d0
 __submit_bio+0x239/0x310
 ? __bio_queue_enter+0x700/0x700
 ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x40/0x60
 ? ktime_get+0x285/0x470
 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x4d9/0xb80
 ? should_fail_request+0x80/0x80
 ? preempt_count_sub+0x150/0x150
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? __bio_add_page+0x143/0x2d0
 ? iov_iter_revert+0x27/0x360
 submit_bio_noacct+0x53e/0x1b30
 submit_bio_wait+0x10a/0x230
 ? submit_bio_wait_endio+0x40/0x40
 __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+0x4f8/0x780
 ? blkdev_bio_end_io+0x4c0/0x4c0
 ? stack_trace_save+0x90/0xc0
 ? __bio_clone+0x3c0/0x3c0
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? lock_sync+0x190/0x190
 ? atime_needs_update+0x3bf/0x7e0
 ? timestamp_truncate+0x21b/0x2d0
 ? inode_owner_or_capable+0x240/0x240
 blkdev_direct_IO.part.0+0x84a/0x1810
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 ? blkdev_read_iter+0x40d/0x530
 ? reacquire_held_locks+0x4e0/0x4e0
 ? __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+0x780/0x780
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x297/0xd50
 ? preempt_count_add+0x72/0x140
 blkdev_read_iter+0x2a4/0x530
 do_iter_readv_writev+0x2f2/0x3c0
 ? generic_copy_file_range+0x1d0/0x1d0
 ? fsnotify_perm.part.0+0x25d/0x630
 ? security_file_permission+0xd8/0x100
 do_iter_read+0x31b/0x880
 ? import_iovec+0x10b/0x140
 vfs_readv+0x12d/0x1a0
 ? vfs_iter_read+0xb0/0xb0
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xb0
 ? lock_release+0x4b7/0x670
 do_preadv+0x1b3/0x260
 ? do_readv+0x370/0x370
 __x64_sys_preadv2+0xef/0x150
 do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f5af41ad806
Code: 41 54 41 89 fc 55 44 89 c5 53 48 89 cb 48 83 ec 18 80 3d e4 dd 0d 00 00 74 7a 45 89 c1 49 89 ca 45 31 c0 b8 47 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 be 00 00 00 48 85 c0 79 4a 48 8b 0d da 55
RSP: 002b:00007ffd3145c7f0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000147
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f5af41ad806
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007ffd3145c850 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000008
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003
R13: 00007ffd3145c850 R14: 000055f5f0431dd8 R15: 0000000000000001
 </TASK>

where in fact it is dm itself that attempts to allocate a bio clone with
GFP_NOIO under the rcu read lock, regardless of the request type.

Fix this by getting rid of the special casing for REQ_NOWAIT, and just
use the normal SRCU protected table lookup. Get rid of the bio based
table locking helpers at the same time, as they are now unused.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53860 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 563a225c9fd207326c2a2af9d59b4097cb31ce70 and fixed in 6.1.55 with commit d7b2abd87d1fcdb47811f90090a363e7ca15cb14
	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 563a225c9fd207326c2a2af9d59b4097cb31ce70 and fixed in 6.5.5 with commit 699775e9338adcd4eaedea000d32c60250c3114d
	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 563a225c9fd207326c2a2af9d59b4097cb31ce70 and fixed in 6.6 with commit a9ce385344f916cd1c36a33905e564f5581beae9

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-2023-53860
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/md/dm.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/d7b2abd87d1fcdb47811f90090a363e7ca15cb14
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/699775e9338adcd4eaedea000d32c60250c3114d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9ce385344f916cd1c36a33905e564f5581beae9

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