CVE-2023-54153

ext4: turn quotas off if mount failed after enabling quotas

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: December 24, 2025 at 01:07 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 10:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: turn quotas off if mount failed after enabling quotas Yi found during a review of the patch "ext4: don't BUG on inconsistent journal feature" that when ext4_mark_recovery_complete() returns an error value, the error handling path does not turn off the enabled quotas, which triggers the following kmemleak: ================================================================ unreferenced object 0xffff8cf68678e7c0 (size 64): comm "mount", pid 746, jiffies 4294871231 (age 11.540s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 90 ef 82 f6 8c ff ff 00 00 00 00 41 01 00 00 ............A... c7 00 00 00 bd 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 ............H... backtrace: [<00000000c561ef24>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x4d4/0x880 [<00000000d4e621d7>] kmalloc_trace+0x39/0x140 [<00000000837eee74>] v2_read_file_info+0x18a/0x3a0 [<0000000088f6c877>] dquot_load_quota_sb+0x2ed/0x770 [<00000000340a4782>] dquot_load_quota_inode+0xc6/0x1c0 [<0000000089a18bd5>] ext4_enable_quotas+0x17e/0x3a0 [ext4] [<000000003a0268fa>] __ext4_fill_super+0x3448/0x3910 [ext4] [<00000000b0f2a8a8>] ext4_fill_super+0x13d/0x340 [ext4] [<000000004a9489c4>] get_tree_bdev+0x1dc/0x370 [<000000006e723bf1>] ext4_get_tree+0x1d/0x30 [ext4] [<00000000c7cb663d>] vfs_get_tree+0x31/0x160 [<00000000320e1bed>] do_new_mount+0x1d5/0x480 [<00000000c074654c>] path_mount+0x22e/0xbe0 [<0000000003e97a8e>] do_mount+0x95/0xc0 [<000000002f3d3736>] __x64_sys_mount+0xc4/0x160 [<0000000027d2140c>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 ================================================================ To solve this problem, we add a "failed_mount10" tag, and call ext4_quota_off_umount() in this tag to release the enabled qoutas.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 4.14.196v ≥ 4.19.143v ≥ 5.4.62v ≥ 5.8.64.14.196 ≤ v < 4.154.19.143 ≤ v < 4.205.4.62 ≤ v < 5.55.8.6 ≤ v < 5.95.9 ≤ v < 5.15.1215.9 ≤ v < 6.1.405.9 ≤ v < 6.4.55.9 ≤ v < 6.511215630aada28307ba555a43138db6ac54fa8252e7312ddaf629eecf4702b662da477a3bc39c31a4.14.1964.19.1435.4.625.8.65.960e2824ab30a19c7aaf5a3932bc155d18b2cd816a6d49257cbe53c7bca1a0353a6443f53cbed9cc7d558851e5ff443b020245b7a1a455c55accf740b
Vendor states this is fixed in 77c3ca1108eb4a26db4f256c42b271a430cebc7d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c327b83c59ee938792a0300df646efac39c7d6a7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d13f99632748462c32fc95d729f5e754bab06064 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in deef86fa3005cbb61ae8aa5729324c09b3f4ba73 (fixed)
Affected range stops below 4.15, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.20, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.121 (unaffected)
Affected range stops below 5.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.9 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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