CVE: CVE-2023-53317
Published: 2025-09-16
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent

Syzbot found the following issue:

EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation, dioread_nolock, O_DIRECT and fast_commit support!
EXT4-fs (loop0): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor307 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
RIP: 0010:mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c9e098 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff82405731 RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: ffff[PII_REDACTED]c0
RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP: [PII_REDACTED] R08: ffffffff82405723 R09: ffffed10053c9402
R10: ffffed10053c9402 R11: 1ffff110053c9401 R12: [PII_REDACTED]
R13: ffffc90003c9e538 R14: dffffc[PII_REDACTED] R15: ffffc90003c9e2cc
FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
CR2: 000056312f6796f8 CR3: [PII_REDACTED] CR4:[PII_REDACTED]3506e0
DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x353/0x1100 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2307
 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x1533/0x3860 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2735
 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xddf/0x3db0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5605
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1868/0x6880 fs/ext4/extents.c:4286
 ext4_map_blocks+0xa49/0x1cc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:651
 ext4_getblk+0x1b9/0x770 fs/ext4/inode.c:864
 ext4_bread+0x2a/0x170 fs/ext4/inode.c:920
 ext4_quota_write+0x225/0x570 fs/ext4/super.c:7105
 write_blk fs/quota/quota_tree.c:64 [inline]
 get_free_dqblk+0x34a/0x6d0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:130
 do_insert_tree+0x26b/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:340
 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375
 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375
 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375
 dq_insert_tree fs/quota/quota_tree.c:401 [inline]
 qtree_write_dquot+0x3b6/0x530 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:420
 v2_write_dquot+0x11b/0x190 fs/quota/quota_v2.c:358
 dquot_acquire+0x348/0x670 fs/quota/dquot.c:444
 ext4_acquire_dquot+0x2dc/0x400 fs/ext4/super.c:6740
 dqget+0x999/0xdc0 fs/quota/dquot.c:914
 __dquot_initialize+0x3d0/0xcf0 fs/quota/dquot.c:1492
 ext4_process_orphan+0x57/0x2d0 fs/ext4/orphan.c:329
 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xb60/0x1340 fs/ext4/orphan.c:474
 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5516 [inline]
 ext4_fill_super+0x81cd/0x8700 fs/ext4/super.c:5644
 get_tree_bdev+0x400/0x620 fs/super.c:1282
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1489
 do_new_mount+0x289/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3145
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2d3/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3674
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Add some debug information:
mb_find_extent: mb_find_extent block=41, order=0 needed=64 next=0 ex=0/41/1@[PII_REDACTED] 64 64 7
block_bitmap: ff 3f 0c 00 fc 01 00 00 d2 3d 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

Acctually, blocks per group is 64, but block bitmap indicate at least has
128 blocks. Now, ext4_validate_block_bitmap() didn't check invalid block's
bitmap if set.
To resolve above issue, add check like fsck "Padding at end of block bitmap is
not set".
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b90fbc7590124c57a2e590de7fd07eba26606f1; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d356d902e9d5b1aaaaf2326d365340fa8a90c1b; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/775b00ba23f6f916fe2ac60c5ff7fd0fe4f28d0d