CVE-2023-54268 debugobjects: Don't wake up kswapd from fill_pool()

🗓️ 30 Dec 2025 12:15:59Reported by GoogleType

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Fixed waking the swap daemon in fill_pool by using high priority allocations for debugobjects and removing retry.

Reporter	Title	Published	Views	Family All 29
Tenable Nessus	Amazon Linux 2023 : bpftool, kernel, kernel-devel (ALAS2023-2023-228)	28 Jun 202300:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-034 (ALASKERNEL-5.10-2023-034)	29 Jun 202300:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-021 (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2023-021)	29 Jun 202300:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-047 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2023-047)	29 Jun 202300:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2021-4.0-0065	22 Jul 202100:00	–	nessus
Tenable Nessus	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-54268	31 Dec 202500:00	–	nessus
Amazon	Important: kernel	27 Jun 202300:00	–	amazon
Amazon	Important: kernel	28 Jun 202300:00	–	amazon
Amazon	Important: kernel	28 Jun 202300:00	–	amazon
Amazon	Important: kernel	28 Jun 202300:00	–	amazon

Source	Link
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c088d30a72d9b8f9c6ae9362222942e4075cb00
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/aee97eec77029270866c704f66cdf2881cbd2fe1
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/be646802b3dc408c4dc72a3ac32c3f4a0282414d
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7fff52c99d52f180d8bef95d8ed8fec6343889c
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb799279fb1f9c63c520fe8c1c41cb9154252db6
git	www.git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd673079749bac97bb30f1461df079e6c8e86511
github	www.github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/54xxx/CVE-2023-54268.json
nvd	www.nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54268
git	www.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

02 Apr 2026 09:45Current

6.5Medium risk

Vulners AI Score6.5

EPSS0.00029

debugobjects swap daemon wakeup fill pool high priority flag allocation flags retry removal