CVE-2023-53620

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53620
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53620.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53620
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-07T15:19:26.686Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:33:15.546396Z
Summary
md: fix soft lockup in status_resync
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md: fix soft lockup in status_resync

statusresync() will calculate 'currresync - recovery_active' to show user a progress bar like following:

[============>........] resync = 61.4%

'currresync' and 'recoveryactive' is updated in mddosync(), and statusresync() can read them concurrently, hence it's possible that 'currresync - recoveryactive' can overflow to a huge number. In this case statusresync() will be stuck in the loop to print a large amount of '=', which will end up soft lockup.

Fix the problem by setting 'resync' to MDRESYNCACTIVE in this case, this way resync in progress will be reported to user.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53620.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Fixed
b4acb6c3ede88d6b7d33742a09e63cfce5e7fb69
Fixed
23309704e90859af2662bedc44101e6d1d2ece7e
Fixed
6efddf1e32e2a264694766ca485a4f5e04ee82a7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53620.json"