CVE-2023-52582

netfs: Only call folio_start_fscache() one time for each folio

Published Mar 2, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfs: Only call folio_start_fscache() one time for each folio

If a network filesystem using netfs implements a clamp_length()
function, it can set subrequest lengths smaller than a page size.

When we loop through the folios in netfs_rreq_unlock_folios() to
set any folios to be written back, we need to make sure we only
call folio_start_fscache() once for each folio.

Otherwise, this simple testcase:

mount -o fsc,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 127.0.0.1:/export /mnt/nfs
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/nfs/file.bin bs=4096 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
4096 bytes (4.1 kB, 4.0 KiB) copied, 0.0126359 s, 324 kB/s
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
cat /mnt/nfs/file.bin > /dev/null

will trigger an oops similar to the following:

page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_private_2(folio))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at include/linux/netfs.h:44!
...
CPU: 5 PID: 134 Comm: kworker/u16:5 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5
...
RIP: 0010:netfs_rreq_unlock_folios+0x68e/0x730 [netfs]
...
Call Trace:
netfs_rreq_assess+0x497/0x660 [netfs]
netfs_subreq_terminated+0x32b/0x610 [netfs]
nfs_netfs_read_completion+0x14e/0x1a0 [nfs]
nfs_read_completion+0x2f9/0x330 [nfs]
rpc_free_task+0x72/0xa0 [sunrpc]
rpc_async_release+0x46/0x70 [sunrpc]
process_one_work+0x3bd/0x710
worker_thread+0x89/0x610
kthread+0x181/0x1c0
ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50

Remediation

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Published
Updated
May 11, 2026, 7:29 PM
Reserved
Mar 2, 2024, 9:55 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Mar 2, 2024, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:43 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Mar 2, 2024, 12:00 AM