{ "schema_version": "1.6.1", "id": "RPI-CVE-2023-52562", "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z", "upstream": [ "CVE-2023-52562" ], "published": "2024-03-02T22:00:33Z", "summary": "mm/slab_common: fix slab_caches list corruption after kmem_cache_destroy()", "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/slab_common: fix slab_caches list corruption after kmem_cache_destroy()\n\nAfter the commit in Fixes:, if a module that created a slab cache does not\nrelease all of its allocated objects before destroying the cache (at rmmod\ntime), we might end up releasing the kmem_cache object without removing it\nfrom the slab_caches list thus corrupting the list as kmem_cache_destroy()\nignores the return value from shutdown_cache(), which in turn never removes\nthe kmem_cache object from slabs_list in case __kmem_cache_shutdown() fails\nto release all of the cache's slabs.\n\nThis is easily observable on a kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y\nas after that ill release the system will immediately trip on list_add,\nor list_del, assertions similar to the one shown below as soon as another\nkmem_cache gets created, or destroyed:\n\n [ 1041.213632] list_del corruption. next->prev should be ffff89f596fb5768, but was 52f1e5016aeee75d. (next=ffff89f595a1b268)\n [ 1041.219165] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n [ 1041.221517] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62!\n [ 1041.223452] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n [ 1041.225408] CPU: 2 PID: 1852 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B W OE 6.5.0 #15\n [ 1041.228244] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023\n [ 1041.231212] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0xae/0xb0\n\nAnother quick way to trigger this issue, in a kernel with CONFIG_SLUB=y,\nis to set slub_debug to poison the released objects and then just run\ncat /proc/slabinfo after removing the module that leaks slab objects,\nin which case the kernel will panic:\n\n [ 50.954843] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xa56b6b6b6b6b6b8b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n [ 50.961545] CPU: 2 PID: 1495 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B W OE 6.5.0 #15\n [ 50.966808] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230524-3.fc37 05/24/2023\n [ 50.972663] RIP: 0010:get_slabinfo+0x42/0xf0\n\nThis patch fixes this issue by properly checking shutdown_cache()'s\nreturn value before taking the kmem_cache_release() branch.", "affected": [ { "package": { "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12", "name": "linux" }, "versions": [ "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1", "1:6.1.47-1+rpt2", "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4", "1:6.1.54-1+rpt2" ], "ecosystem_specific": { "binaries": [ { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi1-rpi-v6", "binary_version": "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi1-rpi-v7", "binary_version": "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi1-rpi-v7l", "binary_version": "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi1-rpi-v8", "binary_version": "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi2-rpi-v6", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt2" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi2-rpi-v7", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt2" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi2-rpi-v7l", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt2" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi2-rpi-v8", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt2" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-2712", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v6", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7l", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v8", "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-2712", "binary_version": "1:6.1.54-1+rpt2" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v6", "binary_version": "1:6.1.54-1+rpt2" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7", "binary_version": "1:6.1.54-1+rpt2" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v7l", "binary_version": "1:6.1.54-1+rpt2" }, { "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8", "binary_version": "1:6.1.54-1+rpt2" } ] }, "database_specific": { "per_version": { "1:6.1.21-1+rpt1": { "linux_commit": "0afb5e98488aed7017b9bf321b575d0177feb7ed", "upstream_version": "6.1.21", "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)", "upstream_fixed": "6.1.56" }, "1:6.1.47-1+rpt2": { "linux_commit": "655fc658a15ae7a6f37103754adb39ba52a9a14e", "upstream_version": "6.1.47", "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)", "upstream_fixed": "6.1.56" }, "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4": { "linux_commit": "655fc658a15ae7a6f37103754adb39ba52a9a14e", "upstream_version": "6.1.47", "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)", "upstream_fixed": "6.1.56", "compiled_filter": false }, "1:6.1.54-1+rpt2": { "linux_commit": "2906f7abdc03d4a92b6b0e2e0c87ea2a9dffe8f7", "upstream_version": "6.1.54", "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)", "upstream_fixed": "6.1.56" } } } } ], "references": [ { "type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52562" }, { "type": "FIX", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5569bb187521432f509b69dda7d29f78b2d38b0" }, { "type": "FIX", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51988be187b041e5355245957b0b9751fa382e0d" }, { "type": "FIX", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46a9ea6681907a3be6b6b0d43776dccc62cad6cf" } ], "database_specific": { "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git", "upstream_modified": "2026-05-24T06:48:58Z" } }