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GHSA-CW78-Q654-793W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-27 18:31 – Updated: 2025-10-31 21:30

Details

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "published": "2025-03-27T18:31:28Z",
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CVE-2023-53030 (GCVE-0-2023-53030)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:43 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:27

Title

octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2827c4eb429db64be…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1eb57b87f106c90ce…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87b93b678e95c7d93…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6ea5273c71dd2d07c0a2459594eb34bc087939f7 , < 2827c4eb429db64befdca11362e2b1c5f524f6ba (git) Affected: 667ce030bdfb62a86266444b2c3fd6ab98b9df9b , < 1eb57b87f106c90cee6b2a56a10f2e29c7a25f3e (git) Affected: 4af1b64f80fbe1275fb02c5f1c0cef099a4a231f , < 87b93b678e95c7d93fe6a55b0e0fbda26d8c7760 (git) Affected: b754dc7c933dd9464223f64b10d33d68ab086cc6 (git) Affected: 6.0.19 , < 6.1 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15.87 , < 5.15.91 (semver) Affected: 6.1.5 , < 6.1.8 (semver)

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