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🛡️ CVE-2023-54177 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

quota: fix warning in dqgrab()

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

quota: fix warning in dqgrab()

There's issue as follows when do fault injection:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14870 at include/linux/quotaops.h:51 dquot_disable+0x13b7/0x18c0

Modules linked in:

CPU: 1 PID: 14870 Comm: fsconfig Not tainted 6.3.0-next-20230505-00006-g5107a9c821af-dirty #541

RIP: 0010:dquot_disable+0x13b7/0x18c0

RSP: 0018:ffffc9000acc79e0 EFLAGS: 00010246

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88825e41b980

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88825e41b980 RDI: 0000000000000002

RBP: ffff888179f68000 R08: ffffffff82087ca7 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffed102f3ed026 R12: ffff888179f68130

R13: ffff888179f68110 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff888179f68118

FS: 00007f450a073740(0000) GS:ffff88882fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007ffe96f2efd8 CR3: 000000025c8ad000 CR4: 00000000000006e0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<TASK>

dquot_load_quota_sb+0xd53/0x1060

dquot_resume+0x172/0x230

ext4_reconfigure+0x1dc6/0x27b0

reconfigure_super+0x515/0xa90

__x64_sys_fsconfig+0xb19/0xd20

do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Above issue may happens as follows:

ProcessA ProcessB ProcessC

sys_fsconfig

vfs_fsconfig_locked

reconfigure_super

ext4_remount

dquot_suspend -> suspend all type quota

sys_fsconfig

vfs_fsconfig_locked

reconfigure_super

ext4_remount

dquot_resume

ret = dquot_load_quota_sb

add_dquot_ref

do_open -> open file O_RDWR

vfs_open

do_dentry_open

get_write_access

atomic_inc_unless_negative(&inode->i_writecount)

ext4_file_open

dquot_file_open

dquot_initialize

__dquot_initialize

dqget

atomic_inc(&dquot->dq_count);

__dquot_initialize

__dquot_initialize

dqget

if (!test_bit(DQ_ACTIVE_B, &dquot->dq_flags))

ext4_acquire_dquot

-> Return error DQ_ACTIVE_B flag isn't set

dquot_disable

invalidate_dquots

if (atomic_read(&dquot->dq_count))

dqgrab

WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_bit(DQ_ACTIVE_B, &dquot->dq_flags))

-> Trigger warning

In the above scenario, 'dquot->dq_flags' has no DQ_ACTIVE_B is normal when

dqgrab().

To solve above issue just replace the dqgrab() use in invalidate_dquots() with

atomic_inc(&dquot->dq_count).

Affected software

CVE-2023-54177 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.2.0 up to 6.4.7)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2023-54177 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.2.0 6.4.7
unknown — —

References

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