CVE-2023-53044

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm stats: check for and propagate allocpercpu failure Check allocprecpu's return value and return an error from dmstatsinit if it fails. Update allocdev to fail if dmstatsinit does. Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occu...

CVE-2023-53044

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm stats: check for and propagate allocpercpu failure Check allocprecpu's return value and return an error from dmstatsinit if it fails. Update allocdev to fail if dmstatsinit does. Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occu...

CVE-2023-53044

The CVE-2023-53044 entry concerns a Linux kernel vulnerability in the dm-stats path. A NULL pointer dereference can occur in dm_stats_cleanup() if alloc_percpu() fails during dm_stats_init(), with the failure not being properly propagated from alloc_precpu() or dm_stats_init() to dm_stats_cleanup...