CVE-2023-53475

usb: xhci: tegra: fix sleep in atomic call

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:45 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: xhci: tegra: fix sleep in atomic call When we set the dual-role port to Host mode, we observed the following splat: [ 167.057718] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:229 [ 167.057872] Workqueue: events tegra_xusb_usb_phy_work [ 167.057954] Call trace: [ 167.057962] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x210 [ 167.057996] show_stack+0x30/0x50 [ 167.058020] dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x84 [ 167.058065] dump_stack+0x14/0x34 [ 167.058100] __might_resched+0x144/0x180 [ 167.058140] __might_sleep+0x64/0xd0 [ 167.058171] slab_pre_alloc_hook.constprop.0+0xa8/0x110 [ 167.058202] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x74/0x2b0 [ 167.058233] kvasprintf+0xa4/0x190 [ 167.058261] kasprintf+0x58/0x90 [ 167.058285] tegra_xusb_find_port_node.isra.0+0x58/0xd0 [ 167.058334] tegra_xusb_find_port+0x38/0xa0 [ 167.058380] tegra_xusb_padctl_get_usb3_companion+0x38/0xd0 [ 167.058430] tegra_xhci_id_notify+0x8c/0x1e0 [ 167.058473] notifier_call_chain+0x88/0x100 [ 167.058506] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x70 [ 167.058537] tegra_xusb_usb_phy_work+0x60/0xd0 [ 167.058581] process_one_work+0x1dc/0x4c0 [ 167.058618] worker_thread+0x54/0x410 [ 167.058650] kthread+0x188/0x1b0 [ 167.058672] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 The function tegra_xusb_padctl_get_usb3_companion eventually calls tegra_xusb_find_port and this in turn calls kasprintf which might sleep and so cannot be called from an atomic context. Fix this by moving the call to tegra_xusb_padctl_get_usb3_companion to the tegra_xhci_id_work function where it is really needed.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.1075.16 ≤ v < 6.1.245.7 ≤ v < 5.10.1785.7 ≤ v < 5.15.1075.7 ≤ v < 6.1.245.7 ≤ v < 6.2.115.7 ≤ v < 6.36.2 ≤ v < 6.2.115.76.3 rc16.3 rc26.3 rc36.3 rc46.3 rc5f836e7843036fbf34320356e156cd4267fa5bfa2
Vendor states this is fixed in 1122474b757a5dd8b2b50008a97f33cdb10dff6e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 130c61c516cd0684282a8f6ab163281d60642fc5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1fe6015aa92cc0dfd875c1d3c7c1750a1b0767d9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4c7f9d2e413dc06a157c4e5dccde84aaf4655eb3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b4b4f17aa46c025da77aed5133b08971959c9684 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.178 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.107 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.24 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
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