Bug 2420242 (CVE-2023-53815) - CVE-2023-53815 kernel: posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete()
Summary: CVE-2023-53815 kernel: posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53815
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 01:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-10 07:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 01:02:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

posix-timers: Prevent RT livelock in itimer_delete()

itimer_delete() has a retry loop when the timer is concurrently expired. On
non-RT kernels this just spin-waits until the timer callback has completed,
except for posix CPU timers which have HAVE_POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
enabled.

In that case and on RT kernels the existing task could live lock when
preempting the task which does the timer delivery.

Replace spin_unlock() with an invocation of timer_wait_running() to handle
it the same way as the other retry loops in the posix timer code.


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