CVE-2023-53655
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
07/10/2025
Last modified:
08/10/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
rcu: Avoid stack overflow due to __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() being kprobe-ed<br />
<br />
Registering a kprobe on __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() can cause kernel<br />
stack overflow as shown below. This issue can be reproduced by enabling<br />
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL and booting the kernel with argument "nohz_full=",<br />
and then giving the following commands at the shell prompt:<br />
<br />
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/<br />
# echo &#39;p:mp1 __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick&#39; >> kprobe_events<br />
# echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable<br />
<br />
This commit therefore adds __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() to the kprobes<br />
blacklist using NOKPROBE_SYMBOL().<br />
<br />
Insufficient stack space to handle exception!<br />
ESR: 0x00000000f2000004 -- BRK (AArch64)<br />
FAR: 0x0000ffffccf3e510<br />
Task stack: [0xffff80000ad30000..0xffff80000ad38000]<br />
IRQ stack: [0xffff800008050000..0xffff800008058000]<br />
Overflow stack: [0xffff089c36f9f310..0xffff089c36fa0310]<br />
CPU: 5 PID: 190 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00320-g1f5abbd77e2c #19<br />
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)<br />
pstate: 400003c5 (nZcv DAIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)<br />
pc : __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8<br />
lr : ct_nmi_enter+0x11c/0x138<br />
sp : ffff80000ad30080<br />
x29: ffff80000ad30080 x28: ffff089c82e20000 x27: 0000000000000000<br />
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff089c02a8d100 x24: 0000000000000000<br />
x23: 00000000400003c5 x22: 0000ffffccf3e510 x21: ffff089c36fae148<br />
x20: ffff80000ad30120 x19: ffffa8da8fcce148 x18: 0000000000000000<br />
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffffa8da8e44ea6c<br />
x14: ffffa8da8e44e968 x13: ffffa8da8e03136c x12: 1fffe113804d6809<br />
x11: ffff6113804d6809 x10: 0000000000000a60 x9 : dfff800000000000<br />
x8 : ffff089c026b404f x7 : 00009eec7fb297f7 x6 : 0000000000000001<br />
x5 : ffff80000ad30120 x4 : dfff800000000000 x3 : ffffa8da8e3016f4<br />
x2 : 0000000000000003 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000<br />
Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel stack overflow<br />
CPU: 5 PID: 190 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00320-g1f5abbd77e2c #19<br />
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)<br />
Call trace:<br />
dump_backtrace+0xf8/0x108<br />
show_stack+0x20/0x30<br />
dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84<br />
dump_stack+0x1c/0x38<br />
panic+0x214/0x404<br />
add_taint+0x0/0xf8<br />
panic_bad_stack+0x144/0x160<br />
handle_bad_stack+0x38/0x58<br />
__bad_stack+0x78/0x7c<br />
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8<br />
arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20<br />
el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90<br />
el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8<br />
el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68<br />
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8<br />
arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20<br />
el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90<br />
el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8<br />
el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68<br />
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8<br />
arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20<br />
el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90<br />
el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8<br />
el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68<br />
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8<br />
[...]<br />
el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90<br />
el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8<br />
el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68<br />
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8<br />
arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20<br />
el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90<br />
el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8<br />
el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68<br />
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8<br />
arm64_enter_el1_dbg.isra.0+0x14/0x20<br />
el1_dbg+0x2c/0x90<br />
el1h_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe8<br />
el1h_64_sync+0x64/0x68<br />
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick+0x0/0x1b8<br />
el1_interrupt+0x28/0x60<br />
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x28<br />
el1h_64_irq+0x64/0x68<br />
__ftrace_set_clr_event_nolock+0x98/0x198<br />
__ftrace_set_clr_event+0x58/0x80<br />
system_enable_write+0x144/0x178<br />
vfs_write+0x174/0x738<br />
ksys_write+0xd0/0x188<br />
__arm64_sys_write+0x4c/0x60<br />
invoke_syscall+0x64/0x180<br />
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x84/0x160<br />
do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe8<br />
el0_svc+0x34/0xd0<br />
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0<br />
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194<br />
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs<br />
Kernel Offset: 0x28da86000000 from 0xffff800008000000<br />
PHYS_OFFSET: 0xfffff76600000000<br />
CPU features: 0x00000,01a00100,0000421b<br />
Memory Limit: none
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c3d1a6720aefb02403ddfebe85db521d3af2c3b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a29fb4a4771124bc61de397dbfc1554dbbcc19c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b5a97333e920b69356e097f185bdc51d61e66ee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93b6295f677d96b73cfcb703532f6c7369a60d96
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8a3341b339285495cf7c8d061d659465f2311e0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb18bc5a8678f431c500e6da1b8b5f34478d5bc1



