CVE-2023-53783
Our Analysis: General-Purpose
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-iocost: fix divide by 0 error in calc_lcoefs()
echo max of u64 to cost.model can cause divide by 0 error.
# echo 8:0 rbps=18446744073709551615 > /sys/fs/cgroup/io.cost.model
divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
RIP: 0010:calc_lcoefs+0x4c/0xc0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ioc_refresh_params+0x2b3/0x4f0
ioc_cost_model_write+0x3cb/0x4c0
? _copy_from_iter+0x6d/0x6c0
? kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xfc/0x270
cgroup_file_write+0xa0/0x200
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x17d/0x270
vfs_write+0x414/0x620
ksys_write+0x73/0x160
__x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
calc_lcoefs() uses the input value of cost.model in DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL,
overflow would happen if bps plus IOC_PAGE_SIZE is greater than
ULLONG_MAX, it can cause divide by 0 error.
Fix the problem by setting basecost