CVE-2023-53848 — Deadlock in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid5-cache: fix a deadlock in r5l_exit_log()
Commit b13015af94cf ("md/raid5-cache: Clear conf->log after finishing
work") introduce a new problem:
// caller hold reconfig_mutex
r5l_exit_log
flush_work(&log->disable_writeback_work)
r5c_disable_writeback_async
wait_event
/*
* conf->log is not NULL, and mddev_trylock()
* will fail, wait_event() can never pass.
*/
conf->log = NULL
Fix this problem by setting 'config->log' to…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb13015af94cf405f73ff64ce0797269554020c37 — ac9e103f282a7854f3274ef5ff0742fbbe8d7d6b+4
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2023-53848: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid5-cache: fix a deadlock in r5l_exit_log() Commit b13015af94cf ("md/raid5-ca↗2025-12-09
GHSA▶
GHSA-j393-rh49-r5p6: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid5-cache: fix a deadlock in r5l_exit_log()
Commit b13015af94cf ("md/raid5-↗2025-12-09