Race Condition Affecting rv package, versions <0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-RV-14782531
  • published31 Dec 2025
  • disclosed30 Dec 2025

Introduced: 30 Dec 2025

CVE-2023-54165  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:9 rv to version 0:5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rv package and not the rv package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

zsmalloc: move LRU update from zs_map_object() to zs_malloc()

Under memory pressure, we sometimes observe the following crash:

[ 5694.832838] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 5694.842093] list_del corruption, ffff888014b6a448->next is LIST_POISON1 (dead000000000100) [ 5694.858677] WARNING: CPU: 33 PID: 418824 at lib/list_debug.c:47 __list_del_entry_valid+0x42/0x80 [ 5694.961820] CPU: 33 PID: 418824 Comm: fuse_counters.s Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S 5.19.0-0_fbk3_rc3_hoangnhatpzsdynshrv41_10870_g85a9558a25de #1 [ 5694.990194] Hardware name: Wiwynn Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS YMM16 05/24/2021 [ 5695.007072] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x42/0x80 [ 5695.017351] Code: 08 48 83 c2 22 48 39 d0 74 24 48 8b 10 48 39 f2 75 2c 48 8b 51 08 b0 01 48 39 f2 75 34 c3 48 c7 c7 55 d7 78 82 e8 4e 45 3b 00 <0f> 0b eb 31 48 c7 c7 27 a8 70 82 e8 3e 45 3b 00 0f 0b eb 21 48 c7 [ 5695.054919] RSP: 0018:ffffc90027aef4f0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 5695.065366] RAX: 41fe484987275300 RBX: ffff888008988180 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 5695.079636] RDX: ffff88886006c280 RSI: ffff888860060480 RDI: ffff888860060480 [ 5695.093904] RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc90027aef370 [ 5695.108175] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff82fdf1c0 R12: 0000000010000002 [ 5695.122447] R13: ffff888014b6a448 R14: ffff888014b6a420 R15: 00000000138dc240 [ 5695.136717] FS: 00007f23a7d3f740(0000) GS:ffff888860040000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 5695.152899] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 5695.164388] CR2: 0000560ceaab6ac0 CR3: 000000001c06c001 CR4: 00000000007706e0 [ 5695.178659] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 5695.192927] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 5695.207197] PKRU: 55555554 [ 5695.212602] Call Trace: [ 5695.217486] <TASK> [ 5695.221674] zs_map_object+0x91/0x270 [ 5695.229000] zswap_frontswap_store+0x33d/0x870 [ 5695.237885] ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x5d/0xa0 [ 5695.245899] __frontswap_store+0x51/0xb0 [ 5695.253742] swap_writepage+0x3c/0x60 [ 5695.261063] shrink_page_list+0x738/0x1230 [ 5695.269255] shrink_lruvec+0x5ec/0xcd0 [ 5695.276749] ? shrink_slab+0x187/0x5f0 [ 5695.284240] ? mem_cgroup_iter+0x6e/0x120 [ 5695.292255] shrink_node+0x293/0x7b0 [ 5695.299402] do_try_to_free_pages+0xea/0x550 [ 5695.307940] try_to_free_pages+0x19a/0x490 [ 5695.316126] __folio_alloc+0x19ff/0x3e40 [ 5695.323971] ? __filemap_get_folio+0x8a/0x4e0 [ 5695.332681] ? walk_component+0x2a8/0xb50 [ 5695.340697] ? generic_permission+0xda/0x2a0 [ 5695.349231] ? __filemap_get_folio+0x8a/0x4e0 [ 5695.357940] ? walk_component+0x2a8/0xb50 [ 5695.365955] vma_alloc_folio+0x10e/0x570 [ 5695.373796] ? walk_component+0x52/0xb50 [ 5695.381634] wp_page_copy+0x38c/0xc10 [ 5695.388953] ? filename_lookup+0x378/0xbc0 [ 5695.397140] handle_mm_fault+0x87f/0x1800 [ 5695.405157] do_user_addr_fault+0x1bd/0x570 [ 5695.413520] exc_page_fault+0x5d/0x110 [ 5695.421017] asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30

After some investigation, I have found the following issue: unlike other zswap backends, zsmalloc performs the LRU list update at the object mapping time, rather than when the slot for the object is allocated. This deviation was discussed and agreed upon during the review process of the zsmalloc writeback patch series:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y3flcAXNxxrvy3ZH@cmpxchg.org/

Unfortunately, this introduces a subtle bug that occurs when there is a concurrent store and reclaim, which interleave as follows:

zswap_frontswap_store() shrink_worker() zs_malloc() zs_zpool_shrink() spin_lock(&pool->lock) zs_reclaim_page() zspage = find_get_zspage() spin_unlock(&pool->lock) spin_lock(&pool->lock) zspage = list_first_entry(&pool->lru)

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