Bug 2420340 (CVE-2023-53859)

Summary: CVE-2023-53859 kernel: s390/idle: mark arch_cpu_idle() noinstr
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A kernel warning vulnerability was found in the s390 architecture idle handling in the Linux kernel. The arch_cpu_idle() function was not marked as noinstr (no instrumentation), causing RCU and tracing warnings when ftrace is enabled. This can trigger kernel warnings and potential issues with tracing in idle paths on s390 systems.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:04:07 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/idle: mark arch_cpu_idle() noinstr

linux-next commit ("cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()")
adds a new warning which hits on s390's arch_cpu_idle() function:

RCU not on for: arch_cpu_idle+0x0/0x28
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at include/linux/trace_recursion.h:162 arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x24c/0x258
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc6-next-20230202 #4
Hardware name: IBM 8561 T01 703 (z/VM 7.3.0)
Krnl PSW : 0404d00180000000 00000000002b55c0 (arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x250/0x258)
           R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: c0000000ffffbfff 0000000080000002 0000000000000026 0000000000000000
           0000037ffffe3a28 0000037ffffe3a20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
           0000000000000000 0000000000f4acf6 00000000001044f0 0000037ffffe3cb0
           0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000002b55bc 0000037ffffe3bb8
Krnl Code: 00000000002b55b0: c02000840051        larl    %r2,0000000001335652
           00000000002b55b6: c0e5fff512d1        brasl   %r14,0000000000157b58
          #00000000002b55bc: af000000            mc      0,0
          >00000000002b55c0: a7f4ffe7            brc     15,00000000002b558e
           00000000002b55c4: 0707                bcr     0,%r7
           00000000002b55c6: 0707                bcr     0,%r7
           00000000002b55c8: eb6ff0480024        stmg    %r6,%r15,72(%r15)
           00000000002b55ce: b90400ef            lgr     %r14,%r15
Call Trace:
 [<00000000002b55c0>] arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x250/0x258
([<00000000002b55bc>] arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x24c/0x258)
 [<0000000000f5f0fc>] ftrace_common+0x1c/0x20
 [<00000000001044f6>] arch_cpu_idle+0x6/0x28
 [<0000000000f4acf6>] default_idle_call+0x76/0x128
 [<00000000001cc374>] do_idle+0xf4/0x1b0
 [<00000000001cc6ce>] cpu_startup_entry+0x36/0x40
 [<0000000000119d00>] smp_start_secondary+0x140/0x150
 [<0000000000f5d2ae>] restart_int_handler+0x6e/0x90

Mark arch_cpu_idle() noinstr like all other architectures with
CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR (should) have it to fix this.