FKIE_CVE-2023-53655

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-07 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:45
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed Registering a kprobe on __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() can cause kernel stack overflow as shown below. This issue can be reproduced by enabling CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and booting the kernel with argument "nohz_full=", and then giving the following commands at the shell prompt: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/ # echo 'p:mp1 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick' >> kprobe_events # echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable This commit therefore adds __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() to the kprobes blacklist using NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(). Insufficient stack space to handle exception! ESR: 0x00000000f2000004 -- BRK (AArch64) FAR: 0x0000ffffccf3e510 Task stack: [0xffff80000ad30000..0xffff80000ad38000] IRQ stack: [0xffff800008050000..0xffff800008058000] Overflow stack: [0xffff089c36f9f310..0xffff089c36fa0310] CPU: 5 PID: 190 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00320-g1f5abbd77e2c #19 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 400003c5 (nZcv DAIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 lr : ct_nmi_enter+0x11c/0x138 sp : ffff80000ad30080 x29: ffff80000ad30080 x28: ffff089c82e20000 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff089c02a8d100 x24: 0000000000000000 x23: 00000000400003c5 x22: 0000ffffccf3e510 x21: ffff089c36fae148 x20: ffff80000ad30120 x19: ffffa8da8fcce148 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffffa8da8e44ea6c x14: ffffa8da8e44e968 x13: ffffa8da8e03136c x12: 1fffe113804d6809 x11: ffff6113804d6809 x10: 0000000000000a60 x9 : dfff800000000000 x8 : ffff089c026b404f x7 : 00009eec7fb297f7 x6 : 0000000000000001 x5 : ffff80000ad30120 x4 : dfff800000000000 x3 : ffffa8da8e3016f4 x2 : 0000000000000003 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000 Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel stack overflow CPU: 5 PID: 190 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00320-g1f5abbd77e2c #19 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace: dump_backtrace+0xf8/0x108 show_stack+0x20/0x30 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84 dump_stack+0x1c/0x38 panic+0x214/0x404 add_taint+0x0/0xf8 panic_bad_stack+0x144/0x160 handle_bad_stack+0x38/0x58 __bad_stack+0x78/0x7c __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 [...] el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20 el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90 el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8 el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8 el1_interrupt+0x28/0x60 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x28 el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68 __ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock+0x98/0x198 __ftrace_set_clr_event+0x58/0x80 system_enable_write+0x144/0x178 vfs_write+0x174/0x738 ksys_write+0xd0/0x188 __arm64_sys_write+0x4c/0x60 invoke_syscall+0x64/0x180 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x84/0x160 do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe8 el0_svc+0x34/0xd0 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 SMP: stopping secondary CPUs Kernel Offset: 0x28da86000000 from 0xffff800008000000 PHYS_OFFSET: 0xfffff76600000000 CPU features: 0x00000,01a00100,0000421b Memory Limit: none
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c3d1a6720aefb02403ddfebe85db521d3af2c3bPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a29fb4a4771124bc61de397dbfc1554dbbcc19cPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b5a97333e920b69356e097f185bdc51d61e66eePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93b6295f677d96b73cfcb703532f6c7369a60d96Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8a3341b339285495cf7c8d061d659465f2311e0Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb18bc5a8678f431c500e6da1b8b5f34478d5bc1Patch
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T06:45:48.433",
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