vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2023-53099: linux -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 2, 2025 | May 5, 2025 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: xilinx: don't make a sleepable memory allocation from an atomic context
The following issue was discovered using lockdep:
[ 6.691371] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:209
[ 6.694602] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
[ 6.702431] 2 locks held by swapper/0/1:
[ 6.706300] #0: ffffff8800f6f188 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: __device_driver_lock+0x4c/0x90
[ 6.714900] #1: ffffffc009a2abb8 (enable_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: clk_enable_lock+0x4c/0x140
[ 6.723156] irq event stamp: 304030
[ 6.726596] hardirqs last enabled at (304029): [<ffffffc008d17ee0>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xc0/0xd0
[ 6.736142] hardirqs last disabled at (304030): [<ffffffc00876bc5c>] clk_enable_lock+0xfc/0x140
[ 6.744742] softirqs last enabled at (303958): [<ffffffc0080904f0>] _stext+0x4f0/0x894
[ 6.752655] softirqs last disabled at (303951): [<ffffffc0080e53b8>] irq_exit+0x238/0x280
[ 6.760744] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G U 5.15.36 #2
[ 6.768048] Hardware name: xlnx,zynqmp (DT)
[ 6.772179] Call trace:
[ 6.774584] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x300
[ 6.778197] show_stack+0x18/0x30
[ 6.781465] dump_stack_lvl+0xb8/0xec
[ 6.785077] dump_stack+0x1c/0x38
[ 6.788345] ___might_sleep+0x1a8/0x2a0
[ 6.792129] __might_sleep+0x6c/0xd0
[ 6.795655] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x270/0x3d0
[ 6.800127] do_feature_check_call+0x100/0x220
[ 6.804513] zynqmp_pm_invoke_fn+0x8c/0xb0
[ 6.808555] zynqmp_pm_clock_getstate+0x90/0xe0
[ 6.813027] zynqmp_pll_is_enabled+0x8c/0x120
[ 6.817327] zynqmp_pll_enable+0x38/0xc0
[ 6.821197] clk_core_enable+0x144/0x400
[ 6.825067] clk_core_enable+0xd4/0x400
[ 6.828851] clk_core_enable+0xd4/0x400
[ 6.832635] clk_core_enable+0xd4/0x400
[ 6.836419] clk_core_enable+0xd4/0x400
[ 6.840203] clk_core_enable+0xd4/0x400
[ 6.843987] clk_core_enable+0xd4/0x400
[ 6.847771] clk_core_enable+0xd4/0x400
[ 6.851555] clk_core_enable_lock+0x24/0x50
[ 6.855683] clk_enable+0x24/0x40
[ 6.858952] fclk_probe+0x84/0xf0
[ 6.862220] platform_probe+0x8c/0x110
[ 6.865918] really_probe+0x110/0x5f0
[ 6.869530] __driver_probe_device+0xcc/0x210
[ 6.873830] driver_probe_device+0x64/0x140
[ 6.877958] __driver_attach+0x114/0x1f0
[ 6.881828] bus_for_each_dev+0xe8/0x160
[ 6.885698] driver_attach+0x34/0x50
[ 6.889224] bus_add_driver+0x228/0x300
[ 6.893008] driver_register+0xc0/0x1e0
[ 6.896792] __platform_driver_register+0x44/0x60
[ 6.901436] fclk_driver_init+0x1c/0x28
[ 6.905220] do_one_initcall+0x104/0x590
[ 6.909091] kernel_init_freeable+0x254/0x2bc
[ 6.913390] kernel_init+0x24/0x130
[ 6.916831] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Fix it by passing the GFP_ATOMIC gfp flag for the corresponding
memory allocation.
Solution
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