CVE-2023-53216 (GCVE-0-2023-53216)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:21 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:13
VLAI
Title
arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: efi: Make efi_rt_lock a raw_spinlock Running a rt-kernel base on 6.2.0-rc3-rt1 on an Ampere Altra outputs the following: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 9, name: kworker/u320:0 preempt_count: 2, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 3 locks held by kworker/u320:0/9: #0: ffff3fff8c27d128 ((wq_completion)efi_rts_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41) #1: ffff80000861bdd0 ((work_completion)(&efi_rts_work.work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work (./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:41) #2: ffffdf7e1ed3e460 (efi_rt_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: efi_call_rts (drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c:101) Preemption disabled at: efi_virtmap_load (./arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h:248) CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/u320:0 Tainted: G W 6.2.0-rc3-rt1 Hardware name: WIWYNN Mt.Jade Server System B81.03001.0005/Mt.Jade Motherboard, BIOS 1.08.20220218 (SCP: 1.08.20220218) 2022/02/18 Workqueue: efi_rts_wq efi_call_rts Call trace: dump_backtrace (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:158) show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:165) dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 4)) dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:114) __might_resched (kernel/sched/core.c:10134) rt_spin_lock (kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1769 (discriminator 4)) efi_call_rts (drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c:101) [...] This seems to come from commit ff7a167961d1 ("arm64: efi: Execute runtime services from a dedicated stack") which adds a spinlock. This spinlock is taken through: efi_call_rts() \-efi_call_virt() \-efi_call_virt_pointer() \-arch_efi_call_virt_setup() Make 'efi_rt_lock' a raw_spinlock to avoid being preempted. [ardb: The EFI runtime services are called with a different set of translation tables, and are permitted to use the SIMD registers. The context switch code preserves/restores neither, and so EFI calls must be made with preemption disabled, rather than only disabling migration.]
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-14 17:49 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 4012603cbd469223f225637d265a233f034c567a , < 030b1c4217a4f504c7d0795a2bd86b7181e56f11 (git)
Affected: de2af657cab92afc13a4ccd8780370481ed0eb61 , < 6a72729ed6accc86dad5522895e8fa2f96642a2c (git)
Affected: f75a91c82dc805af8f718ff106ec9c090234b37b , < 8b38969fa01662ec539a0d08a8ea5ec6f31fa4ed (git)
Affected: ff7a167961d1b97e0e205f245f806e564d3505e7 , < 4e8f7d998b582a99aadedd07ae6086e99b89c97a (git)
Affected: ff7a167961d1b97e0e205f245f806e564d3505e7 , < 0e68b5517d3767562889f1d83fdb828c26adb24f (git)
Affected: 5.10.165 , < 5.10.175 (semver)
Affected: 5.15.90 , < 5.15.103 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.8 , < 6.1.18 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.175 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.103 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.18 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.5 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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