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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 17, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 11, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

block: be a bit more careful in checking for NULL bdev while polling

Wei reports a crash with an application using polled IO:

PGD 14265e067 P4D 14265e067 PUD 47ec50067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 21915 Comm: iocore_0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S 5.12.0-0_fbk12_clang_7346_g1bb6f2e7058f #1
Hardware name: Wiwynn Delta Lake MP T8/Delta Lake-Class2, BIOS Y3DLM08 04/10/2022
RIP: 0010:bio_poll+0x25/0x200
Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 28 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 20 48 8b 47 08 <48> 8b 80 70 02 00 00 4c 8b 70 50 8b 6f 34 31 db 83 fd ff 75 25 65
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005fafdf8 EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 74b43cd65dd66600
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: ffffc90005fafe78 RDI: ffff8884b614e140
RBP: ffff88849964df78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000008
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88849964df00
R13: ffffc90005fafe78 R14: ffff888137d3c378 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 00007fd195000640(0000) GS:ffff88903f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000270 CR3: 0000000466121001 CR4: 00000000007706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
iocb_bio_iopoll+0x1d/0x30
io_do_iopoll+0xac/0x250
__se_sys_io_uring_enter+0x3c5/0x5a0
? __x64_sys_write+0x89/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x94f225d
Code: 24 cc 00 00 00 41 8b 84 24 d0 00 00 00 c1 e0 04 83 e0 10 41 09 c2 8b 33 8b 53 04 4c 8b 43 18 4c 63 4b 0c b8 aa 01 00 00 0f 05 <85> c0 0f 88 85 00 00 00 29 03 45 84 f6 0f 84 88 00 00 00 41 f6 c7
RSP: 002b:00007fd194ffcd88 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001aa
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd194ffcdc0 RCX: 00000000094f225d
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007fd194ffcdb0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000008
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fd269d68030
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000

which is due to bio->bi_bdev being NULL. This can happen if we have two
tasks doing polled IO, and task B ends up completing IO from task A if
they are sharing a poll queue. If task B completes the IO and puts the
bio into our cache, then it can allocate that bio again before task A
is done polling for it. As that would necessitate a preempt between the
two tasks, it's enough to just be a bit more careful in checking for
whether or not bio->bi_bdev is NULL.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 17, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 17, 2025
Last updated Dec 11, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(3rd percentile)

Weaknesses

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2023-53366

GHSA ID

GHSA-rggc-f5vc-pggf

Source code

No known source code

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