CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53501
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd/iommu_v2: Fix pasid_state refcount dec hit 0 warning on pasid unbind
When unbinding pasid - a race condition exists vs outstanding page faults.
To prevent this, the pasid_state object contains a refcount.
* set to 1 on pasid bind
* incremented on each ppr notification start
* decremented on each ppr notification done
* decremented on pasid unbind
Since refcount_dec assumes that refcount will never reach 0:
the current implementation causes the following to be invoked on
pasid unbind:
REFCOUNT_WARN("decrement hit 0; leaking memory")
Fix this issue by changing refcount_dec to refcount_dec_and_test
to explicitly handle refcount=1.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.132)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.53)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.5.3)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13ed255248dfbbb7f23f9170c7a537fb9ca22c73 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/534103bcd52ca9c1fecbc70e717b4a538dc4ded8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98d86bf32187db27946ca817c2467a5f2f7aa02f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ccc51be3126b25cfe9351dbffde946c925cc28a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a50d60b8f2aff46dd7c7edb4a5835cdc4d432c22 Patch