linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54242: block, bfq: Fix division by zero error on zero wsum

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Message-ID: <2025123034-CVE-2023-54242-9771@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:14:12 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54242: block, bfq: Fix division by zero error on zero wsum

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

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

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

block, bfq: Fix division by zero error on zero wsum

When the weighted sum is zero the calculation of limit causes
a division by zero error. Fix this by continuing to the next level.

This was discovered by running as root:

stress-ng --ioprio 0

Fixes divison by error oops:

[  521.450556] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[  521.450766] CPU: 2 PID: 2684464 Comm: stress-ng-iopri Not tainted 6.2.1-1280.native #1
[  521.451117] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.1-0-g3208b098f51a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[  521.451627] RIP: 0010:bfqq_request_over_limit+0x207/0x400
[  521.451875] Code: 01 48 8d 0c c8 74 0b 48 8b 82 98 00 00 00 48 8d 0c c8 8b 85 34 ff ff ff 48 89 ca 41 0f af 41 50 48 d1 ea 48 98 48 01 d0 31 d2 <48> f7 f1 41 39 41 48 89 85 34 ff ff ff 0f 8c 7b 01 00 00 49 8b 44
[  521.452699] RSP: 0018:ffffb1af84eb3948 EFLAGS: 00010046
[  521.452938] RAX: 000000000000003c RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  521.453262] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffb1af84eb3978
[  521.453584] RBP: ffffb1af84eb3a30 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8f88ab8a4ba0
[  521.453905] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8f88ab8a4b18
[  521.454224] R13: ffff8f8699093000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffb1af84eb3970
[  521.454549] FS:  00005640b6b0b580(0000) GS:ffff8f88b3880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  521.454912] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  521.455170] CR2: 00007ffcbcae4e38 CR3: 00000002e46de001 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[  521.455491] PKRU: 55555554
[  521.455619] Call Trace:
[  521.455736]  <TASK>
[  521.455837]  ? bfq_request_merge+0x3a/0xc0
[  521.456027]  ? elv_merge+0x115/0x140
[  521.456191]  bfq_limit_depth+0xc8/0x240
[  521.456366]  __blk_mq_alloc_requests+0x21a/0x2c0
[  521.456577]  blk_mq_submit_bio+0x23c/0x6c0
[  521.456766]  __submit_bio+0xb8/0x140
[  521.457236]  submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x212/0x300
[  521.457748]  submit_bio_noacct+0x1a6/0x580
[  521.458220]  submit_bio+0x43/0x80
[  521.458660]  ext4_io_submit+0x23/0x80
[  521.459116]  ext4_do_writepages+0x40a/0xd00
[  521.459596]  ext4_writepages+0x65/0x100
[  521.460050]  do_writepages+0xb7/0x1c0
[  521.460492]  __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xa6/0x100
[  521.460979]  file_write_and_wait_range+0xbf/0x140
[  521.461452]  ext4_sync_file+0x105/0x340
[  521.461882]  __x64_sys_fsync+0x67/0x100
[  521.462305]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2c/0x1c0
[  521.462768]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
[  521.463165]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5a/0xc4
[  521.463621] RIP: 0033:0x5640b6c56590
[  521.464006] Code: 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 80 3d 71 70 0e 00 00 74 17 b8 4a 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 48 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 18 89 7c

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54242 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.1.30 with commit 1655cfc85250a224b0d9486c8136baeea33b9b5c
	Fixed in 6.3.4 with commit c0346a59d719461248c6dc6f21c9e55ef836b66f
	Fixed in 6.4 with commit e53413f8deedf738a6782cc14cc00bd5852ccf18

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-2023-54242
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:
	block/bfq-iosched.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/1655cfc85250a224b0d9486c8136baeea33b9b5c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0346a59d719461248c6dc6f21c9e55ef836b66f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e53413f8deedf738a6782cc14cc00bd5852ccf18