CVE-2023-54117

Linux Kernel 5.17-6.1.52, 6.2-6.4.15, 6.5.0-6.5.2 - Denial of Service via DCSSBLK Device Add/Remove Cycle

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/dcssblk: fix kernel crash with list_add corruption Commit fb08a1908cb1 ("dax: simplify the dax_device <-> gendisk association") introduced new logic for gendisk association, requiring drivers to explicitly call dax_add_host() and dax_remove_host(). For dcssblk driver, some dax_remove_host() calls were missing, e.g. in device remove path. The commit also broke error handling for out_dax case in device add path, resulting in an extra put_device() w/o the previous get_device() in that case. This lead to stale xarray entries after device add / remove cycles. In the case when a previously used struct gendisk pointer (xarray index) would be used again, because blk_alloc_disk() happened to return such a pointer, the xa_insert() in dax_add_host() would fail and go to out_dax, doing the extra put_device() in the error path. In combination with an already flawed error handling in dcssblk (device_register() cleanup), which needs to be addressed in a separate patch, this resulted in a missing device_del() / klist_del(), and eventually in the kernel crash with list_add corruption on a subsequent device_add() / klist_add(). Fix this by adding the missing dax_remove_host() calls, and also move the put_device() in the error path to restore the previous logic.

Scores

EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 8.1%

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 6.1.53linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.4.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.5.0 - 6.5.3linux
Linux/Linux < 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.17
Linux/Linux 6.1.53 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.4.16 - 6.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.5.3 - 6.5.*
Linux/Linux 6.6
Linux/Linux fb08a1908cb119a4585611d91461ab6d27756b14 - 6489ec0107860345bc57dcde39e63dfb05ac5c11
... and 3 more
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026