CVE-2023-53810

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: release crypto keyslot before reporting I/O complete Once all I/O using a blk_crypto_key has completed, filesystems can call blk_crypto_evict_key(). However, the block layer currently doesn't call blk_crypto_put_keyslot() until the request is being freed, which happens after upper layers have been told (via bio_endio()) the I/O has completed. This causes a race condition where blk_crypto_evict_key() can see 'slot_refs != 0' without there being an actual bug. This makes __blk_crypto_evict_key() hit the 'WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&slot->slot_refs) != 0)' and return without doing anything, eventually causing a use-after-free in blk_crypto_reprogram_all_keys(). (This is a very rare bug and has only been seen when per-file keys are being used with fscrypt.) There are two options to fix this: either release the keyslot before bio_endio() is called on the request's last bio, or make __blk_crypto_evict_key() ignore slot_refs. Let's go with the first solution, since it preserves the ability to report bugs (via WARN_ON_ONCE) where a key is evicted while still in-use.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-08 | Published 2025-12-09 | Updated 2025-12-09 | Assigner Linux

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References

git.kernel.org/...c/874bdf43b4a7dc5463c31508f62b3e42eb237b08

git.kernel.org/...c/d206f79d9cd658665b37ce8134c6ec849ac7af0c

git.kernel.org/...c/7d206ec7a04e8545828191b6ea8b49d3ea61391f

git.kernel.org/...c/b278570e2c59d538216f8b656e97680188a8fba4

git.kernel.org/...c/92d5d233b9ff531cf9cc36ab4251779e07adb633

git.kernel.org/...c/9cd1e566676bbcb8a126acd921e4e194e6339603

cve.org (CVE-2023-53810)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-53810)

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