CVE-2023-53712

ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous

N/A
Published: October 22, 2025 at 01:23 PM UTC
Updated: October 28, 2026 at 07:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9317/1: kexec: Make smp stop calls asynchronous If a panic is triggered by a hrtimer interrupt all online cpus will be notified and set offline. But as highlighted by commit 19dbdcb8039c ("smp: Warn on function calls from softirq context") this call should not be made synchronous with disabled interrupts: softdog: Initiating panic Kernel panic - not syncing: Software Watchdog Timer expired WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:753 smp_call_function_many_cond unwind_backtrace: show_stack dump_stack_lvl __warn warn_slowpath_fmt smp_call_function_many_cond smp_call_function crash_smp_send_stop.part.0 machine_crash_shutdown __crash_kexec panic softdog_fire __hrtimer_run_queues hrtimer_interrupt Make the smp call for machine_crash_nonpanic_core() asynchronous.

Affected

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

2.6.38b23065313297e750edd57ab6edfd36224826724e
Vendor states this is fixed in 46870eea5496ff277e86187a49ac5a667cfe60c4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5590ba4560eefbd19a4ed07c7e7c8e4c51ffc628 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8922ba71c969d2a0c01a94372a71477d879470de (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ee378f45a70d09b51373ba495d30d99ef12219c1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.38 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.133 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.55 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6 (unaffected)

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