Message-ID: <2025091645-CVE-2023-53329-d1d9@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:12:14 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53329: workqueue: fix data race with the pwq->stats[] increment

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

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

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

workqueue: fix data race with the pwq->stats[] increment

KCSAN has discovered a data race in kernel/workqueue.c:2598:

[ 1863.554079] ==================================================================
[ 1863.554118] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in process_one_work / process_one_work

[ 1863.554142] write to 0xffff963d99d79998 of 8 bytes by task 5394 on cpu 27:
[ 1863.554154] process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:2598)
[ 1863.554166] worker_thread (./include/linux/list.h:292 kernel/workqueue.c:2752)
[ 1863.554177] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:389)
[ 1863.554186] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)
[ 1863.554197] ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)

[ 1863.554213] read to 0xffff963d99d79998 of 8 bytes by task 5450 on cpu 12:
[ 1863.554224] process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:2598)
[ 1863.554235] worker_thread (./include/linux/list.h:292 kernel/workqueue.c:2752)
[ 1863.554247] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:389)
[ 1863.554255] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)
[ 1863.554266] ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)

[ 1863.554280] value changed: 0x0000000000001766 -> 0x000000000000176a

[ 1863.554295] Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
[ 1863.554303] CPU: 12 PID: 5450 Comm: kworker/u64:1 Tainted: G             L     6.5.0-rc6+ #44
[ 1863.554314] Hardware name: ASRock X670E PG Lightning/X670E PG Lightning, BIOS 1.21 04/26/2023
[ 1863.554322] Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_end_bio_work [btrfs]
[ 1863.554941] ==================================================================

    lockdep_invariant_state(true);
→   pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_STARTED]++;
    trace_workqueue_execute_start(work);
    worker->current_func(work);

Moving pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_STARTED]++; before the line

    raw_spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);

resolves the data race without performance penalty.

KCSAN detected at least one additional data race:

[  157.834751] ==================================================================
[  157.834770] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in process_one_work / process_one_work

[  157.834793] write to 0xffff9934453f77a0 of 8 bytes by task 468 on cpu 29:
[  157.834804] process_one_work (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2606)
[  157.834815] worker_thread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/./include/linux/list.h:292 /home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2752)
[  157.834826] kthread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/kthread.c:389)
[  157.834834] ret_from_fork (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)
[  157.834845] ret_from_fork_asm (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)

[  157.834859] read to 0xffff9934453f77a0 of 8 bytes by task 214 on cpu 7:
[  157.834868] process_one_work (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2606)
[  157.834879] worker_thread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/./include/linux/list.h:292 /home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/workqueue.c:2752)
[  157.834890] kthread (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/kernel/kthread.c:389)
[  157.834897] ret_from_fork (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)
[  157.834907] ret_from_fork_asm (/home/marvin/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:312)

[  157.834920] value changed: 0x000000000000052a -> 0x0000000000000532

[  157.834933] Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
[  157.834941] CPU: 7 PID: 214 Comm: kworker/u64:2 Tainted: G             L     6.5.0-rc7-kcsan-00169-g81eaf55a60fc #4
[  157.834951] Hardware name: ASRock X670E PG Lightning/X670E PG Lightning, BIOS 1.21 04/26/2023
[  157.834958] Workqueue: btrfs-endio btrfs_end_bio_work [btrfs]
[  157.835567] ==================================================================

in code:

        trace_workqueue_execute_end(work, worker->current_func);
→       pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_COMPLETED]++;
        lock_map_release(&lockdep_map);
        lock_map_release(&pwq->wq->lockdep_map);

which needs to be resolved separately.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53329 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit 725e8ec59c56c65fb92e343c10a8842cd0d4f194 and fixed in 6.5.3 with commit ce55024f28589b0012fa2c6b5748ec5a180b7fbe
	Issue introduced in 6.5 with commit 725e8ec59c56c65fb92e343c10a8842cd0d4f194 and fixed in 6.6 with commit fe48ba7daefe75bbbefa2426deddc05f2d530d2d

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-2023-53329
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:
	kernel/workqueue.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/ce55024f28589b0012fa2c6b5748ec5a180b7fbe
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe48ba7daefe75bbbefa2426deddc05f2d530d2d

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