Vulnerability in Linux
CVE-2023-53030
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context Using GFP_KERNEL in preemption disable context, causing below warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is enabled. [ 32.542271] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:274 [ 32.550883] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0 [ 32.558707] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 [ 32.562710] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 [ 32.566800] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.2.0-rc2-00269-gae9dcb91c606 #7 [ 32.576188] Hardware name: Marvell CN106XX board (DT) [ 32.581232] Call trace: [ 32.583670] dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe0/0xf0 [ 32.587937] show_stack+0x18/0x30 [ 32.591245] dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84 [ 32.594900] dump_stack+0x18/0x34 [ 32.598206] __might_resched+0x12c/0x160 [ 32.602122] __might_sleep+0x48/0xa0 [ 32.605689] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2b8/0x2e0 [ 32.610301] __kmalloc+0x58/0x190 [ 32.613610] otx2_sq_aura_pool_init+0x1a8/0x314 [ 32.618134] otx2_open+0x1d4/0x9d0 To avoid use of GFP_ATOMIC for memory allocation, disable preemption after all memory allocation is done.
EPSS: 0.001 (3.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Linux — versions 4af1b64f80fbe1275fb02c5f1c0cef099a4a231f, 6.0.19, 6.1.5
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-53030?
- CVE-2023-53030 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux, classified under Improper Locking. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-03-27.
- How severe is CVE-2023-53030?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.