{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2023-54069","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-12-24T12:21:05.093Z","datePublished":"2025-12-24T12:23:13.504Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:54:52.587Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:54:52.587Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix BUG in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() due to overflow\n\nWhen we calculate the end position of ext4_free_extent, this position may\nbe exactly where ext4_lblk_t (i.e. uint) overflows. For example, if\nac_g_ex.fe_logical is 4294965248 and ac_orig_goal_len is 2048, then the\ncomputed end is 0x100000000, which is 0. If ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical is not\nthe first case of adjusting the best extent, that is, new_bex_end > 0, the\nfollowing BUG_ON will be triggered:\n\n=========================================================\nkernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5116!\ninvalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\nCPU: 3 PID: 673 Comm: xfs_io Tainted: G E 6.5.0-rc1+ #279\nRIP: 0010:ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0xc5/0x430\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n ext4_mb_use_best_found+0x203/0x2f0\n ext4_mb_try_best_found+0x163/0x240\n ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x158/0x1550\n ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x86a/0xe10\n ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xb0c/0x13a0\n ext4_map_blocks+0x2cd/0x8f0\n ext4_iomap_begin+0x27b/0x400\n iomap_iter+0x222/0x3d0\n __iomap_dio_rw+0x243/0xcb0\n iomap_dio_rw+0x16/0x80\n=========================================================\n\nA simple reproducer demonstrating the problem:\n\n\tmkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda -b 4096 100M\n\tmount /dev/sda /tmp/test\n\tfallocate -l1M /tmp/test/tmp\n\tfallocate -l10M /tmp/test/file\n\tfallocate -i -o 1M -l16777203M /tmp/test/file\n\tfsstress -d /tmp/test -l 0 -n 100000 -p 8 &\n\tsleep 10 && killall -9 fsstress\n\trm -f /tmp/test/tmp\n\txfs_io -c \"open -ad /tmp/test/file\" -c \"pwrite -S 0xff 0 8192\"\n\nWe simply refactor the logic for adjusting the best extent by adding\na temporary ext4_free_extent ex and use extent_logical_end() to avoid\noverflow, which also simplifies the 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