linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53122: RISC-V: fix taking the text_mutex twice during sifive errata patching

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Message-ID: <2025050231-CVE-2023-53122-2296@gregkh>
Date: Fri,  2 May 2025 17:56:27 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53122: RISC-V: fix taking the text_mutex twice during sifive errata patching

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

RISC-V: fix taking the text_mutex twice during sifive errata patching

Chris pointed out that some bonehead, *cough* me *cough*, added two
mutex_locks() to the SiFive errata patching. The second was meant to
have been a mutex_unlock().

This results in errors such as

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000030
Oops [#1]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted
6.2.0-rc1-starlight-00079-g9493e6f3ce02 #229
Hardware name: BeagleV Starlight Beta (DT)
epc : __schedule+0x42/0x500
 ra : schedule+0x46/0xce
epc : ffffffff8065957c ra : ffffffff80659a80 sp : ffffffff81203c80
 gp : ffffffff812d50a0 tp : ffffffff8120db40 t0 : ffffffff81203d68
 t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 4c45203a76637369 s0 : ffffffff81203cf0
 s1 : ffffffff8120db40 a0 : 0000000000000000 a1 : ffffffff81213958
 a2 : ffffffff81213958 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
 a5 : ffffffff80a1bd00 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000052464e43
 s2 : ffffffff8120db41 s3 : ffffffff80a1ad00 s4 : 0000000000000000
 s5 : 0000000000000002 s6 : ffffffff81213938 s7 : 0000000000000000
 s8 : 0000000000000000 s9 : 0000000000000001 s10: ffffffff812d7204
 s11: ffffffff80d3c920 t3 : 0000000000000001 t4 : ffffffff812e6dd7
 t5 : ffffffff812e6dd8 t6 : ffffffff81203bb8
status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000030 cause: 000000000000000d
[<ffffffff80659a80>] schedule+0x46/0xce
[<ffffffff80659dce>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x16/0x28
[<ffffffff8065ae0c>] __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x3fe/0x652
[<ffffffff8065b138>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe/0x16
[<ffffffff8065b182>] mutex_lock+0x42/0x4c
[<ffffffff8000ad94>] sifive_errata_patch_func+0xf6/0x18c
[<ffffffff80002b92>] _apply_alternatives+0x74/0x76
[<ffffffff80802ee8>] apply_boot_alternatives+0x3c/0xfa
[<ffffffff80803cb0>] setup_arch+0x60c/0x640
[<ffffffff80800926>] start_kernel+0x8e/0x99c
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[Palmer: pick up Geert's bug report from the thread]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53122 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue fixed in mainline with commit bf89b7e

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53122
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	arch/riscv/errata/sifive/errata.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2feac714c6818f7767cfc21a3c10fa926b7398a3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96a1600461957731b6d8ff3563c9f94b315bdaa1
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf89b7ee52af5a5944fa3539e86089f72475055b