In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: quota: fix warning in dqgrab() There's issue as follows when do fault injection: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14870 at include/linux/quotaops.h:51 dquotdisable+0x13b7/0x18c0 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 14870 Comm: fsconfig Not tainted 6.3.0-next-20230505-00006-g5107a9c821af-dirty #541 RIP: 0010:dquotdisable+0x13b7/0x18c0 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000acc79e0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88825e41b980 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88825e41b980 RDI: 0000000000000002 RBP: ffff888179f68000 R08: ffffffff82087ca7 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffed102f3ed026 R12: ffff888179f68130 R13: ffff888179f68110 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff888179f68118 FS: 00007f450a073740(0000) GS:ffff88882fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007ffe96f2efd8 CR3: 000000025c8ad000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> dquotloadquotasb+0xd53/0x1060 dquotresume+0x172/0x230 ext4reconfigure+0x1dc6/0x27b0 reconfiguresuper+0x515/0xa90 _x64sysfsconfig+0xb19/0xd20 dosyscall64+0x39/0xb0 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd Above issue may happens as follows: ProcessA ProcessB ProcessC sysfsconfig vfsfsconfiglocked reconfiguresuper ext4remount dquotsuspend -> suspend all type quota sysfsconfig vfsfsconfiglocked reconfiguresuper ext4remount dquotresume ret = dquotloadquotasb adddquotref doopen -> open file ORDWR vfsopen dodentryopen getwriteaccess atomicincunlessnegative(&inode->iwritecount) ext4fileopen dquotfileopen dquotinitialize _dquotinitialize dqget atomicinc(&dquot->dqcount); _dquotinitialize _dquotinitialize dqget if (!testbit(DQACTIVEB, &dquot->dqflags)) ext4acquiredquot -> Return error DQACTIVEB flag isn't set dquotdisable invalidatedquots if (atomicread(&dquot->dqcount)) dqgrab WARNONONCE(!testbit(DQACTIVEB, &dquot->dqflags)) -> Trigger warning In the above scenario, 'dquot->dqflags' has no DQACTIVEB is normal when dqgrab(). To solve above issue just replace the dqgrab() use in invalidatedquots() with atomicinc(&dquot->dqcount).