linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53550: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type

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Message-ID: <2025100447-CVE-2023-53550-bbac@gregkh>
Date: Sat,  4 Oct 2025 17:17:04 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53550: cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type

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

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

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

cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix global sysfs attribute type

In commit 3666062b87ec ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: move to use bus_get_dev_root()")
the "amd_pstate" attributes where moved from a dedicated kobject to the
cpu root kobject.

While the dedicated kobject expects to contain kobj_attributes the root
kobject needs device_attributes.

As the changed arguments are not used by the callbacks it works most of
the time.
However CFI will detect this issue:

[ 4947.849350] CFI failure at dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60 (target: show_status+0x0/0x70; expected type: 0x8651b1de)
...
[ 4947.849409] Call Trace:
[ 4947.849410]  <TASK>
[ 4947.849411]  ? __warn+0xcf/0x1c0
[ 4947.849414]  ? dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60
[ 4947.849415]  ? report_cfi_failure+0x4e/0x60
[ 4947.849417]  ? handle_cfi_failure+0x14c/0x1d0
[ 4947.849419]  ? __cfi_show_status+0x10/0x10
[ 4947.849420]  ? handle_bug+0x4f/0x90
[ 4947.849421]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x60
[ 4947.849422]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[ 4947.849424]  ? __cfi_show_status+0x10/0x10
[ 4947.849425]  ? dev_attr_show+0x24/0x60
[ 4947.849426]  sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xa6/0x110
[ 4947.849433]  seq_read_iter+0x16c/0x4b0
[ 4947.849436]  vfs_read+0x272/0x2d0
[ 4947.849438]  ksys_read+0x72/0xe0
[ 4947.849439]  do_syscall_64+0x76/0xb0
[ 4947.849440]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x252/0x650
[ 4947.849442]  ? exc_page_fault+0x7a/0x1b0
[ 4947.849443]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53550 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 3666062b87ec8be4b85dc475dfb54bb17e10a7f6 and fixed in 6.4.11 with commit ddcfc33a20380508f7fea18e1c330abe17ed4fc0
	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 3666062b87ec8be4b85dc475dfb54bb17e10a7f6 and fixed in 6.5 with commit 5e720f8c8c9d959283c3908bbf32a91a01a86547

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-2023-53550
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:
	drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.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/ddcfc33a20380508f7fea18e1c330abe17ed4fc0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e720f8c8c9d959283c3908bbf32a91a01a86547