Bug 2405784 (CVE-2023-53712)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-53712 kernel: ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
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| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A logic error was found in the Linux kernel's ARM kexec crash handling in the SMP stop notification code.
A local user can trigger this issue by causing a kernel panic from a high-resolution timer interrupt context (such as a software watchdog expiration), where the crash shutdown path attempts to synchronously stop other CPUs with interrupts disabled. This violates SMP call constraints and results in warnings, potential deadlocks, or failure to properly capture crash state for kdump.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous If a panic is triggered by a hrtimer interrupt all online cpus will be notified and set offline. But as highlighted by commit 19dbdcb8039c ("smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context") this call should not be made synchronous with disabled interrupts: softdog: Initiating panic Kernel panic - not syncing: Software Watchdog Timer expired WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:753 smp_call_function_many_cond unwind_backtrace: show_stack dump_stack_lvl __warn warn_slowpath_fmt smp_call_function_many_cond smp_call_function crash_smp_send_stop.part.0 machine_crash_shutdown __crash_kexec panic softdog_fire __hrtimer_run_queues hrtimer_interrupt Make the smp call for machine_crash_nonpanic_core() asynchronous.