Bug 2400818 (CVE-2023-53474) - CVE-2023-53474 kernel: x86/MCE/AMD: Use an u64 for bank_map
Summary: CVE-2023-53474 kernel: x86/MCE/AMD: Use an u64 for bank_map
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53474
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:09 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-06 17:31 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:09:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/MCE/AMD: Use an u64 for bank_map

Thee maximum number of MCA banks is 64 (MAX_NR_BANKS), see

  a0bc32b3cacf ("x86/mce: Increase maximum number of banks to 64").

However, the bank_map which contains a bitfield of which banks to
initialize is of type unsigned int and that overflows when those bit
numbers are >= 32, leading to UBSAN complaining correctly:

  UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/amd.c:1365:38
  shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'int'

Change the bank_map to a u64 and use the proper BIT_ULL() macro when
modifying bits in there.

  [ bp: Rewrite commit message. ]


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