Vulnerability · Published Oct 7, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2023-53656drivers/perf: hisi: Don't migrate perf to the CPU going to teardown

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 5% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 94.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers/perf: hisi: Don't migrate perf to the CPU going to teardown The driver needs to migrate the perf context if the current using CPU going to teardown. By the time calling the cpuhp::teardown() callback the cpu_online_mask() hasn't updated yet and still includes the CPU going to teardown. In current driver's implementation we may migrate the context to the teardown CPU and leads to the below calltrace: ... [ 368.104662][ T932] task:cpuhp/0 state:D stack: 0 pid: 15 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000008 [ 368.113699][ T932] Call trace: [ 368.116834][ T932] __switch_to+0x7c/0xbc [ 368.120924][ T932] __schedule+0x338/0x6f0 [ 368.125098][ T932] schedule+0x50/0xe0 [ 368.128926][ T932] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x18/0x24 [ 368.134229][ T932] __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x1d4/0x5dc [ 368.139617][ T932] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1c/0x30 [ 368.144573][ T932] mutex_lock+0x50/0x60 [ 368.148579][ T932] perf_pmu_migrate_context+0x84/0x2b0 [ 368.153884][ T932] hisi_pcie_pmu_offline_cpu+0x90/0xe0 [hisi_pcie_pmu] [ 368.160579][ T932] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2a0/0x650 [ 368.165707][ T932] cpuhp_thread_fun+0xe4/0x190 [ 368.170316][ T932] smpboot_thread_fn+0x15c/0x1a0 [ 368.175099][ T932] kthread+0x108/0x13c [ 368.179012][ T932] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 ... Use function cpumask_any_but() to find one correct active cpu to fixes this issue.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.52-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53656
Debian:13linux6.4.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53656
Debian:14linux6.4.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 8404b0fbc7fbd42e5c5d28cdedd450e70829c77a – before be9c8c9c84b6d25a7b7d39954030aba6f759feb68404b0fbc7fbd42e5c5d28cdedd450e70829c77a – before f564e543a43d0f1cabac791672c8a6fc78ce12d08404b0fbc7fbd42e5c5d28cdedd450e70829c77a – before b64569897d86b611befbb895d815280fea94e1ed8404b0fbc7fbd42e5c5d28cdedd450e70829c77a – before 7a6a9f1c5a0a875a421db798d4b2ee022dc1ee1a
Linux Linux 5.17

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