Bug 2401463 (CVE-2023-53550)

Summary: CVE-2023-53550 kernel: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:01:46 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type

In commit 3666062b87ec ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: move to use bus_get_dev_root()")
the "amd_pstate" attributes where moved from a dedicated kobject to the
cpu root kobject.

While the dedicated kobject expects to contain kobj_attributes the root
kobject needs device_attributes.

As the changed arguments are not used by the callbacks it works most of
the time.
However CFI will detect this issue:

[ 4947.849350] CFI failure at dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60 (target: show_status+0x0/0x70; expected type: 0x8651b1de)
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[ 4947.849409] Call Trace:
[ 4947.849410]  <TASK>
[ 4947.849411]  ? __warn+0xcf/0x1c0
[ 4947.849414]  ? dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60
[ 4947.849415]  ? report_cfi_failure+0x4e/0x60
[ 4947.849417]  ? handle_cfi_failure+0x14c/0x1d0
[ 4947.849419]  ? __cfi_show_status+0x10/0x10
[ 4947.849420]  ? handle_bug+0x4f/0x90
[ 4947.849421]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x60
[ 4947.849422]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[ 4947.849424]  ? __cfi_show_status+0x10/0x10
[ 4947.849425]  ? dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60
[ 4947.849426]  sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xa6/0x110
[ 4947.849433]  seq_read_iter+0x16c/0x4b0
[ 4947.849436]  vfs_read+0x272/0x2d0
[ 4947.849438]  ksys_read+0x72/0xe0
[ 4947.849439]  do_syscall_64+0x76/0xb0
[ 4947.849440]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x252/0x650
[ 4947.849442]  ? exc_page_fault+0x7a/0x1b0
[ 4947.849443]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc