CVE-2023-53699
CVE-2023-53699CVE-2023-53699
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: move memblock_allow_resize() after linear mapping is ready
The initial memblock metadata is accessed from kernel image mapping. The
regions arrays need to "reallocated" from memblock and accessed through
linear mapping to cover more memblock regions. So the resizing should
not be allowed until linear mapping is ready. Note that there are
memblock allocations when building linear mapping.
This patch is similar to 24cc61d8cb5a ("arm64: memblock: don't permit
memblock resizing until linear mapping is up").
In following log, many memblock regions are reserved before
create_linear_mapping_page_table(). And then it triggered reallocation
of memblock.reserved.regions and memcpy the old array in kernel image
mapping to the new array in linear mapping which caused a page fault.
[ 0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf01f000-0x00000000bf01ffff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[ 0.000000] membloc
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| Last modified | 2026-10-28 |