CVE-2023-54268

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via GFP_ATOMIC Allocation in debugobjects fill_pool()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: debugobjects: Don't wake up kswapd from fill_pool() syzbot is reporting a lockdep warning in fill_pool() because the allocation from debugobjects is using GFP_ATOMIC, which is (__GFP_HIGH | __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM) and therefore tries to wake up kswapd, which acquires kswapd_wait::lock. Since fill_pool() might be called with arbitrary locks held, fill_pool() should not assume that acquiring kswapd_wait::lock is safe. Use __GFP_HIGH instead and remove __GFP_NORETRY as it is pointless for !__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM allocation.

Scores

EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.7%

Details

Status published
Products (19)
linux/Kernel 2.6.26 - 5.4.244linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.114linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.31linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.181linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.3.5linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.26
Linux/Linux 2.6.26
Linux/Linux 3ac7fe5a4aab409bd5674d0b070bce97f9d20872 - 4c088d30a72d9b8f9c6ae9362222942e4075cb00
Linux/Linux 3ac7fe5a4aab409bd5674d0b070bce97f9d20872 - aee97eec77029270866c704f66cdf2881cbd2fe1
Linux/Linux 3ac7fe5a4aab409bd5674d0b070bce97f9d20872 - be646802b3dc408c4dc72a3ac32c3f4a0282414d
... and 9 more
Published Dec 30, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026