Bug 2402196 (CVE-2023-53656)

Summary:	CVE-2023-53656 kernel: drivers/perf: hisi: Don't migrate perf to the CPU going to teardown
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Doc Text:	A logic error was found in the Linux kernel's HiSilicon PCIe performance monitoring driver in the CPU offline handling path. A local user can trigger this issue during CPU hotplug operations when the driver migrates performance monitoring context, potentially selecting the CPU being torn down as the migration target. This causes deadlock when the migration code attempts to use a CPU that is no longer operational, resulting in hung tasks and denial of service through system unresponsiveness.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-07 16:02:17 UTC

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

drivers/perf: hisi: Don't migrate perf to the CPU going to teardown

The driver needs to migrate the perf context if the current using CPU going
to teardown. By the time calling the cpuhp::teardown() callback the
cpu_online_mask() hasn't updated yet and still includes the CPU going to
teardown. In current driver's implementation we may migrate the context
to the teardown CPU and leads to the below calltrace:

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[  368.104662][  T932] task:cpuhp/0         state:D stack:    0 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00000008
[  368.113699][  T932] Call trace:
[  368.116834][  T932]  __switch_to+0x7c/0xbc
[  368.120924][  T932]  __schedule+0x338/0x6f0
[  368.125098][  T932]  schedule+0x50/0xe0
[  368.128926][  T932]  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x18/0x24
[  368.134229][  T932]  __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x1d4/0x5dc
[  368.139617][  T932]  __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1c/0x30
[  368.144573][  T932]  mutex_lock+0x50/0x60
[  368.148579][  T932]  perf_pmu_migrate_context+0x84/0x2b0
[  368.153884][  T932]  hisi_pcie_pmu_offline_cpu+0x90/0xe0 [hisi_pcie_pmu]
[  368.160579][  T932]  cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2a0/0x650
[  368.165707][  T932]  cpuhp_thread_fun+0xe4/0x190
[  368.170316][  T932]  smpboot_thread_fn+0x15c/0x1a0
[  368.175099][  T932]  kthread+0x108/0x13c
[  368.179012][  T932]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
...

Use function cpumask_any_but() to find one correct active cpu to fixes
this issue.

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-10-07 20:57:24 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100701-CVE-2023-53656-1a7b@gregkh/T