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CVE-2023-53859 (GCVE-0-2023-53859)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:30 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:31
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Title
s390/idle: mark arch_cpu_idle() noinstr
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/idle: mark arch_cpu_idle() noinstr linux-next commit ("cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()") adds a new warning which hits on s390's arch_cpu_idle() function: RCU not on for: arch_cpu_idle+0x0/0x28 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at include/linux/trace_recursion.h:162 arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x24c/0x258 Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc6-next-20230202 #4 Hardware name: IBM 8561 T01 703 (z/VM 7.3.0) Krnl PSW : 0404d00180000000 00000000002b55c0 (arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x250/0x258) R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3 Krnl GPRS: c0000000ffffbfff 0000000080000002 0000000000000026 0000000000000000 0000037ffffe3a28 0000037ffffe3a20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000f4acf6 00000000001044f0 0000037ffffe3cb0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000002b55bc 0000037ffffe3bb8 Krnl Code: 00000000002b55b0: c02000840051 larl %r2,0000000001335652 00000000002b55b6: c0e5fff512d1 brasl %r14,0000000000157b58 #00000000002b55bc: af000000 mc 0,0 >00000000002b55c0: a7f4ffe7 brc 15,00000000002b558e 00000000002b55c4: 0707 bcr 0,%r7 00000000002b55c6: 0707 bcr 0,%r7 00000000002b55c8: eb6ff0480024 stmg %r6,%r15,72(%r15) 00000000002b55ce: b90400ef lgr %r14,%r15 Call Trace: [<00000000002b55c0>] arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x250/0x258 ([<00000000002b55bc>] arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x24c/0x258) [<0000000000f5f0fc>] ftrace_common+0x1c/0x20 [<00000000001044f6>] arch_cpu_idle+0x6/0x28 [<0000000000f4acf6>] default_idle_call+0x76/0x128 [<00000000001cc374>] do_idle+0xf4/0x1b0 [<00000000001cc6ce>] cpu_startup_entry+0x36/0x40 [<0000000000119d00>] smp_start_secondary+0x140/0x150 [<0000000000f5d2ae>] restart_int_handler+0x6e/0x90 Mark arch_cpu_idle() noinstr like all other architectures with CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR (should) have it to fix this.
Severity
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1098582a0f6c4e8fd28da0a6305f9233d02c9c1d , < 49aa49952116b8fd56bfb1e8c69bce179f49bece (git)
Affected: 1098582a0f6c4e8fd28da0a6305f9233d02c9c1d , < 611c390217106c46e24e1af3db83187339d447ea (git)
Affected: 1098582a0f6c4e8fd28da0a6305f9233d02c9c1d , < fc60c4f12d8a056f20d8f4d0086a36c68ffa9fdc (git)
Affected: 1098582a0f6c4e8fd28da0a6305f9233d02c9c1d , < a9cbc1b471d291c865907542394f1c483b93a811 (git)
Affected: 788621afda4101ca0fae48de424040cda78193fe (git)
Affected: 4.19.297 , < 4.20 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.9 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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