{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2023-53709","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-10-22T13:21:37.346Z","datePublished":"2025-10-22T13:23:45.155Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:50:20.480Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T19:50:20.480Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nring-buffer: Handle race between rb_move_tail and rb_check_pages\n\nIt seems a data race between ring_buffer writing and integrity check.\nThat is, RB_FLAG of head_page is been updating, while at same time\nRB_FLAG was cleared when doing integrity check rb_check_pages():\n\n  rb_check_pages()            rb_handle_head_page():\n  --------                    --------\n  rb_head_page_deactivate()\n                              rb_head_page_set_normal()\n  rb_head_page_activate()\n\nWe do intergrity test of the list to check if the list is corrupted and\nit is still worth doing it. So, let's refactor rb_check_pages() such that\nwe no longer clear and set flag during the list sanity checking.\n\n[1] and [2] are the test to reproduce and the crash report respectively.\n\n1:\n``` read_trace.sh\n  while true;\n  do\n    # the \"trace\" file is closed after read\n    head -1 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace > /dev/null\n  done\n```\n``` repro.sh\n  sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1\n  # function tracer will writing enough data into ring_buffer\n  echo function > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer\n  ./read_trace.sh &\n  ./read_trace.sh &\n  ./read_trace.sh &\n  ./read_trace.sh &\n  ./read_trace.sh &\n  ./read_trace.sh &\n  ./read_trace.sh &\n  ./read_trace.sh &\n```\n\n2:\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 62 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2653\nrb_move_tail+0x450/0x470\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 9 PID: 62 Comm: ksoftirqd/9 Tainted: G        W          6.2.0-rc6+\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\nrel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:rb_move_tail+0x450/0x470\nCode: ff ff 4c 89 c8 f0 4d 0f b1 02 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 fc 49 39 d0 75 24\n83 e0 03 83 f8 02 0f 84 e1 fb ff ff 48 8b 57 10 f0 ff 42 08 <0f> 0b 83\nf8 02 0f 84 ce fb ff ff e9 db\nRSP: 0018:ffffb5564089bd00 EFLAGS: 00000203\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9db385a2bf81 RCX: ffffb5564089bd18\nRDX: ffff9db281110100 RSI: 0000000000000fe4 RDI: ffff9db380145400\nRBP: ffff9db385a2bf80 R08: ffff9db385a2bfc0 R09: ffff9db385a2bfc2\nR10: ffff9db385a6c000 R11: ffff9db385a2bf80 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 00000000000003e8 R14: ffff9db281110100 R15: ffffffffbb006108\nFS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9db3bdcc0000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00005602323024c8 CR3: 0000000022e0c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x136/0x360\n ? __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df\n ? __pfx_rcu_softirq_qs+0x10/0x10\n trace_function+0x21/0x110\n ? __pfx_rcu_softirq_qs+0x10/0x10\n ? __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df\n function_trace_call+0xf6/0x120\n 0xffffffffc038f097\n ? rcu_softirq_qs+0x5/0x140\n rcu_softirq_qs+0x5/0x140\n __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df\n run_ksoftirqd+0x2a/0x30\n smpboot_thread_fn+0x188/0x220\n ? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0xe7/0x110\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50\n </TASK>\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\n[ crash report and test reproducer credit goes to Zheng Yejian]"}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c"],"versions":[{"version":"1039221cc2787dee51a7ffbf9b0e79d192dadf76","lessThan":"6e02a43acd0691791df79ce538f2dd497a6c9b76","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1039221cc2787dee51a7ffbf9b0e79d192dadf76","lessThan":"d41db100bc386b9433a3fc87026f5e8b453653e3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1039221cc2787dee51a7ffbf9b0e79d192dadf76","lessThan":"9674390ac540ed06768e3fbc2dba553929fbd736","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1039221cc2787dee51a7ffbf9b0e79d192dadf76","lessThan":"09b1bf25f7f7a8f2bf8cd4278bba9c3172db8013","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1039221cc2787dee51a7ffbf9b0e79d192dadf76","lessThan":"8843e06f67b14f71c044bf6267b2387784c7e198","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c"],"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"5.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.10.173","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.99","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.1.16","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.2.3","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.3","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.7","versionEndExcluding":"5.10.173"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.7","versionEndExcluding":"5.15.99"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.7","versionEndExcluding":"6.1.16"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.7","versionEndExcluding":"6.2.3"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.7","versionEndExcluding":"6.3"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e02a43acd0691791df79ce538f2dd497a6c9b76"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d41db100bc386b9433a3fc87026f5e8b453653e3"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9674390ac540ed06768e3fbc2dba553929fbd736"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09b1bf25f7f7a8f2bf8cd4278bba9c3172db8013"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8843e06f67b14f71c044bf6267b2387784c7e198"}],"title":"ring-buffer: Handle race between rb_move_tail and rb_check_pages","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}