CVE-2023-54113

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54113
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54113.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-54113
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-12-24T13:06:35Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:40Z
Summary
rcu: dump vmalloc memory info safely
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rcu: dump vmalloc memory info safely

Currently, for double invoke call_rcu(), will dump rcu_head objects memory info, if the objects is not allocated from the slab allocator, the vmalloc_dump_obj() will be invoke and the vmap_area_lock spinlock need to be held, since the call_rcu() can be invoked in interrupt context, therefore, there is a possibility of spinlock deadlock scenarios.

And in Preempt-RT kernel, the rcutorture test also trigger the following lockdep warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0 preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1 3 locks held by swapper/0/1: #0: ffffffffb534ee80 (fullstop_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: torture_init_begin+0x24/0xa0 #1: ffffffffb5307940 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_torture_init+0x1ec7/0x2370 #2: ffffffffb536af40 (vmap_area_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70 irq event stamp: 565512 hardirqs last enabled at (565511): [] __call_rcu_common+0x218/0x940 hardirqs last disabled at (565512): [] rcu_torture_init+0x20b2/0x2370 softirqs last enabled at (399112): [] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x126/0x170 softirqs last disabled at (399106): [] inet_register_protosw+0x9/0x1d0 Preemption disabled at: [] rcu_torture_init+0x1f13/0x2370 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.5.0-rc4-rt2-yocto-preempt-rt+ #15 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xb0 dump_stack+0x14/0x20 __might_resched+0x1aa/0x280 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_err_cb+0x10/0x10 rt_spin_lock+0x53/0x130 ? find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70 find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70 vmalloc_dump_obj+0x20/0x60 mem_dump_obj+0x22/0x90 __call_rcu_common+0x5bf/0x940 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30 call_rcu_hurry+0x14/0x20 rcu_torture_init+0x1f82/0x2370 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_init+0x10/0x10 do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x300 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30 kernel_init_freeable+0x2b9/0x540 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10 kernel_init+0x1f/0x150 ret_from_fork+0x40/0x50 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30

The previous patch fixes this by using the deadlock-safe best-effort version of find_vm_area. However, in case of failure print the fact that the pointer was a vmalloc pointer so that we print at least something.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/54xxx/CVE-2023-54113.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
98f180837a896ecedf8f7e12af22b57f271d43c9
Fixed
0a22f9c17b1aa2a35b5eedee928f7841595b55cd
Fixed
3f7a4e88e40e38c0b16a4bcb599b7b1d8c81440d
Fixed
dddca4c46ec92f83449bc91dd199f46a89e066be
Fixed
8fb1601ec0a2c4c34fc2170af767e5c2a6400573
Fixed
c83ad36a18c02c0f51280b50272327807916987f

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54113.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.12.0
Fixed
5.15.132
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.53
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.4.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.5.0
Fixed
6.5.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54113.json"