linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53558: rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init

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Message-ID: <2025100449-CVE-2023-53558-e6f7@gregkh>
Date: Sat,  4 Oct 2025 17:17:12 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53558: rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic()

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

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

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

rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic()

pr_info() is called with rtp->cbs_gbl_lock spin lock locked.  Because
pr_info() calls printk() that might sleep, this will result in BUG
like below:

[    0.206455] cblist_init_generic: Setting adjustable number of callback queues.
[    0.206463]
[    0.206464] =============================
[    0.206464] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
[    0.206465] 5.19.0-00428-g9de1f9c8ca51 #5 Not tainted
[    0.206466] -----------------------------
[    0.206466] swapper/0/1 is trying to lock:
[    0.206467] ffffffffa0167a58 (&port_lock_key){....}-{3:3}, at: serial8250_console_write+0x327/0x4a0
[    0.206473] other info that might help us debug this:
[    0.206473] context-{5:5}
[    0.206474] 3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
[    0.206474]  #0: ffffffff9eb597e0 (rcu_tasks.cbs_gbl_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: cblist_init_generic.constprop.0+0x14/0x1f0
[    0.206478]  #1: ffffffff9eb579c0 (console_lock){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: _printk+0x63/0x7e
[    0.206482]  #2: ffffffff9ea77780 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}, at: console_emit_next_record.constprop.0+0x111/0x330
[    0.206485] stack backtrace:
[    0.206486] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-00428-g9de1f9c8ca51 #5
[    0.206488] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-1.fc36 04/01/2014
[    0.206489] Call Trace:
[    0.206490]  <TASK>
[    0.206491]  dump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x9f
[    0.206493]  __lock_acquire.cold+0x2d7/0x2fe
[    0.206496]  ? stack_trace_save+0x46/0x70
[    0.206497]  lock_acquire+0xd1/0x2f0
[    0.206499]  ? serial8250_console_write+0x327/0x4a0
[    0.206500]  ? __lock_acquire+0x5c7/0x2720
[    0.206502]  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3d/0x90
[    0.206504]  ? serial8250_console_write+0x327/0x4a0
[    0.206506]  serial8250_console_write+0x327/0x4a0
[    0.206508]  console_emit_next_record.constprop.0+0x180/0x330
[    0.206511]  console_unlock+0xf7/0x1f0
[    0.206512]  vprintk_emit+0xf7/0x330
[    0.206514]  _printk+0x63/0x7e
[    0.206516]  cblist_init_generic.constprop.0.cold+0x24/0x32
[    0.206518]  rcu_init_tasks_generic+0x5/0xd9
[    0.206522]  kernel_init_freeable+0x15b/0x2a2
[    0.206523]  ? rest_init+0x160/0x160
[    0.206526]  kernel_init+0x11/0x120
[    0.206527]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[    0.206530]  </TASK>
[    0.207018] cblist_init_generic: Setting shift to 1 and lim to 1.

This patch moves pr_info() so that it is called without
rtp->cbs_gbl_lock locked.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53558 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.1.42 with commit 9027d69221ff96e1356f070f7feb2ff989ae7388
	Fixed in 6.4.7 with commit ea9b81c7d9104040b46a84d2303045de267f5557
	Fixed in 6.5 with commit 5fc8cbe4cf0fd34ded8045c385790c3bf04f6785

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-2023-53558
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/rcu/tasks.h


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/9027d69221ff96e1356f070f7feb2ff989ae7388
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea9b81c7d9104040b46a84d2303045de267f5557
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fc8cbe4cf0fd34ded8045c385790c3bf04f6785