linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53563: cpufreq: amd-pstate-ut: Fix kernel panic when loading the driver

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Message-ID: <2025100451-CVE-2023-53563-5cbe@gregkh>
Date: Sat,  4 Oct 2025 17:17:17 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53563: cpufreq: amd-pstate-ut: Fix kernel panic when loading the driver

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

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

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

cpufreq: amd-pstate-ut: Fix kernel panic when loading the driver

After loading the amd-pstate-ut driver, amd_pstate_ut_check_perf()
and amd_pstate_ut_check_freq() use cpufreq_cpu_get() to get the policy
of the CPU and mark it as busy.

In these functions, cpufreq_cpu_put() should be used to release the
policy, but it is not, so any other entity trying to access the policy
is blocked indefinitely.

One such scenario is when amd_pstate mode is changed, leading to the
following splat:

[ 1332.103727] INFO: task bash:2929 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 1332.110001]       Not tainted 6.5.0-rc2-amd-pstate-ut #5
[ 1332.115315] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 1332.123140] task:bash            state:D stack:0     pid:2929  ppid:2873   flags:0x00004006
[ 1332.123143] Call Trace:
[ 1332.123145]  <TASK>
[ 1332.123148]  __schedule+0x3c1/0x16a0
[ 1332.123154]  ? _raw_read_lock_irqsave+0x2d/0x70
[ 1332.123157]  schedule+0x6f/0x110
[ 1332.123160]  schedule_timeout+0x14f/0x160
[ 1332.123162]  ? preempt_count_add+0x86/0xd0
[ 1332.123165]  __wait_for_common+0x92/0x190
[ 1332.123168]  ? __pfx_schedule_timeout+0x10/0x10
[ 1332.123170]  wait_for_completion+0x28/0x30
[ 1332.123173]  cpufreq_policy_put_kobj+0x4d/0x90
[ 1332.123177]  cpufreq_policy_free+0x157/0x1d0
[ 1332.123178]  ? preempt_count_add+0x58/0xd0
[ 1332.123180]  cpufreq_remove_dev+0xb6/0x100
[ 1332.123182]  subsys_interface_unregister+0x114/0x120
[ 1332.123185]  ? preempt_count_add+0x58/0xd0
[ 1332.123187]  ? __pfx_amd_pstate_change_driver_mode+0x10/0x10
[ 1332.123190]  cpufreq_unregister_driver+0x3b/0xd0
[ 1332.123192]  amd_pstate_change_driver_mode+0x1e/0x50
[ 1332.123194]  store_status+0xe9/0x180
[ 1332.123197]  dev_attr_store+0x1b/0x30
[ 1332.123199]  sysfs_kf_write+0x42/0x50
[ 1332.123202]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x143/0x1d0
[ 1332.123204]  vfs_write+0x2df/0x400
[ 1332.123208]  ksys_write+0x6b/0xf0
[ 1332.123210]  __x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30
[ 1332.123213]  do_syscall_64+0x60/0x90
[ 1332.123216]  ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x2e/0x50
[ 1332.123219]  ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x49/0x1a0
[ 1332.123223]  ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xd/0x20
[ 1332.123225]  ? irqentry_exit+0x3f/0x50
[ 1332.123226]  ? exc_page_fault+0x8e/0x190
[ 1332.123228]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[ 1332.123232] RIP: 0033:0x7fa74c514a37
[ 1332.123234] RSP: 002b:00007ffe31dd0788 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
[ 1332.123238] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 00007fa74c514a37
[ 1332.123239] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 000055e27c447aa0 RDI: 0000000000000001
[ 1332.123241] RBP: 000055e27c447aa0 R08: 00007fa74c5d1460 R09: 000000007fffffff
[ 1332.123242] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000008
[ 1332.123244] R13: 00007fa74c61a780 R14: 00007fa74c616600 R15: 00007fa74c615a00
[ 1332.123247]  </TASK>

Fix this by calling cpufreq_cpu_put() wherever necessary.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53563 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.1 with commit 14eb1c96e3a3fd9cd377ac9af3c7a410f8bf1015 and fixed in 6.1.53 with commit fcf78a17bbb94bebaa912f0460a1848f7d374c94
	Issue introduced in 6.1 with commit 14eb1c96e3a3fd9cd377ac9af3c7a410f8bf1015 and fixed in 6.4.16 with commit 84857640c67405eed258c461b3ef909002f1e201
	Issue introduced in 6.1 with commit 14eb1c96e3a3fd9cd377ac9af3c7a410f8bf1015 and fixed in 6.5.3 with commit 0f74f12ee042fd72e45f0e8700e063c84ef3883b
	Issue introduced in 6.1 with commit 14eb1c96e3a3fd9cd377ac9af3c7a410f8bf1015 and fixed in 6.6 with commit 60dd283804479c4a52f995b713f448e2cd65b8c8

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-2023-53563
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-ut.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/fcf78a17bbb94bebaa912f0460a1848f7d374c94
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84857640c67405eed258c461b3ef909002f1e201
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f74f12ee042fd72e45f0e8700e063c84ef3883b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60dd283804479c4a52f995b713f448e2cd65b8c8