CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-54160
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_sdei: Fix sleep from invalid context BUG
Running a preempt-rt (v6.2-rc3-rt1) based kernel on an Ampere Altra
triggers:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 24, name: cpuhp/0
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
3 locks held by cpuhp/0/24:
#0: ffffda30217c70d0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x5c/0x248
#1: ffffda30217c7120 (cpuhp_state-up){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x5c/0x248
#2: ffffda3021c711f0 (sdei_list_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: sdei_cpuhp_up+0x3c/0x130
irq event stamp: 36
hardirqs last enabled at (35): [<ffffda301e85b7bc>] finish_task_switch+0xb4/0x2b0
hardirqs last disabled at (36): [<ffffda301e812fec>] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x21c/0x248
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffda301e80b184>] copy_process+0x63c/0x1ac0
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
CPU: 0 PID: 24 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-rt5-[...]
Hardware name: WIWYNN Mt.Jade Server [...]
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x114/0x120
show_stack+0x20/0x70
dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd8
dump_stack+0x18/0x34
__might_resched+0x188/0x228
rt_spin_lock+0x70/0x120
sdei_cpuhp_up+0x3c/0x130
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x250/0xf08
cpuhp_thread_fun+0x120/0x248
smpboot_thread_fn+0x280/0x320
kthread+0x130/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
sdei_cpuhp_up() is called in the STARTING hotplug section,
which runs with interrupts disabled. Use a CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN entry
instead to execute the cpuhp cb later, with preemption enabled.
SDEI originally got its own cpuhp slot to allow interacting
with perf. It got superseded by pNMI and this early slot is not
relevant anymore. [1]
Some SDEI calls (e.g. SDEI_1_0_FN_SDEI_PE_MASK) take actions on the
calling CPU. It is checked that preemption is disabled for them.
_ONLINE cpuhp cb are executed in the 'per CPU hotplug thread'.
Preemption is enabled in those threads, but their cpumask is limited
to 1 CPU.
Move 'WARN_ON_ONCE(preemptible())' statements so that SDEI cpuhp cb
don't trigger them.
Also add a check for the SDEI_1_0_FN_SDEI_PRIVATE_RESET SDEI call
which acts on the calling CPU.
[1]:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18d5ea5b746120a3972e6c347ad9428228445327 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48ac727ea4a3577eb1b4e24f807ba532c47930f9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/59842a9ba27d5390ae5bf3233a92cad3a26d495c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66caf22787714c925e755719c293aaf3cb0b873b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d8f5ccc826b39e05ff252b1fccd808c7a0725e0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8267bc8de736cae927165191b52fbc20d101dd1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2c48b2387eb89e0bf2a2e06e30987cf410acad4 git.kernel.org