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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-53044

CVE-2023-53044

Description

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

dm stats: check for and propagate alloc_percpu failure

Check alloc_precpu()'s return value and return an error from dm_stats_init() if it fails. Update alloc_dev() to fail if dm_stats_init() does.

Otherwise, a NULL pointer dereference will occur in dm_stats_cleanup() even if dm-stats isn't being actively used.

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