CVE-2023-54268

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd673079749bac97bb30f1461df079e6c8e86511

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb799279fb1f9c63c520fe8c1c41cb9154252db6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7fff52c99d52f180d8bef95d8ed8fec6343889c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be646802b3dc408c4dc72a3ac32c3f4a0282414d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aee97eec77029270866c704f66cdf2881cbd2fe1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c088d30a72d9b8f9c6ae9362222942e4075cb00

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-30

Updated: 2025-12-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024