CVE-2023-53421 — blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in blkcg_reset_stats()

Affected: Linux

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

blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in blkcg_reset_stats()

When blkg_alloc() is called to allocate a blkcg_gq structure with the associated blkg_iostat_set's, there are 2 fields within blkg_iostat_set that requires proper initialization - blkg & sync. The former field was introduced by commit 3b8cc6298724 ("blk-cgroup: Optimize blkcg_rstat_flush()") while the later one was introduced by commit f73316482977 ("blk-cgroup: reimplement basic IO stats using cgroup rstat").

Unfortunately those fields in the blkg_iostat_set's are not properly re-initialized when they are cleared in v1's blkcg_reset_stats(). This can lead to a kernel panic due to NULL pointer access of the blkg pointer. The missing initialization of sync is less problematic and can be a problem in a debug kernel due to missing lockdep initialization.

Fix these problems by re-initializing them after memory clearing.

USN-8162-1 — linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - Block layer subsystem; - Cryptographic API; - Drivers core; - Bluetooth drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Intel Trace Hub HW tracing drivers; - IIO ADC drivers; - IRQ chip drivers; - Modular ISDN driver; - LED subsystem; - UACCE accelerator framework; - Ethernet bonding driver; - Network drivers; - STMicroelectronics network drivers; - Ethernet team driver; - NVME drivers; - PHY drivers; - SLIMbus drivers; - W1 Dallas's 1-wire bus driver; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - BTRFS file system; - Ext4 file system; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NTFS3 file system; - SMB network file system; - NFC subsystem; - BPF subsystem; - IRQ subsystem; - Memory management; - Bluetooth subsystem; - CAN network layer; - Networking core; - IPv4 networking; - IPv6 networking; - L2TP protocol; - Netfilter; - NET/ROM layer; - Network traffic control; - SCTP protocol; - TLS protocol; - XFRM subsystem; - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver; - USB sound devices; (CVE-2023-53421, CVE-2023-53520, CVE-2023-53662, CVE-2023-54207, CVE-2025-37849, CVE-2025-38057, CVE-2025-38125, CVE-2025-38232, CVE-2025-38408, CVE-2025-38591, CVE-2025-4014…

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CVE-2023-53421 — blk-cgroup: Reinit blkg_iostat_set after clearing in blkcg_reset_stats()

USN-8162-1 — linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 vulnerabilities