CVE-2023-52831
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52831
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-52831.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-52831
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2024-05-21T16:15:20Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-23T22:46:04Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpu/hotplug: Don't offline the last non-isolated CPU
If a system has isolated CPUs via the "isolcpus=" command line parameter, then an attempt to offline the last housekeeping CPU will result in a WARNON() when rebuilding the scheduler domains and a subsequent panic due to and unhandled empty CPU mas in partitionscheddomainslocked().
cpusethotplugworkfn() rebuildscheddomainslocked() ndoms = generatescheddomains(&doms, &attr); cpumaskand(doms[0], topcpuset.effectivecpus, housekeepingcpumask(HKFLAG_DOMAIN));
Thus results in an empty CPU mask which triggers the warning and then the subsequent crash:
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 80 at kernel/sched/topology.c:2366 buildscheddomains+0x120c/0x1408 Call trace: buildscheddomains+0x120c/0x1408 partitionscheddomainslocked+0x234/0x880 rebuildscheddomainslocked+0x37c/0x798 rebuildscheddomains+0x30/0x58 cpusethotplugworkfn+0x2a8/0x930
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffe80027ab37080 partitionscheddomainslocked+0x318/0x880 rebuildscheddomainslocked+0x37c/0x798
Aside of the resulting crash, it does not make any sense to offline the last last housekeeping CPU.
Prevent this by masking out the non-housekeeping CPUs when selecting a target CPU for initiating the CPU unplug operation via the work queue.
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