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"cveId": "CVE-2023-53368",
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"assignerShortName": "Linux",
"dateReserved": "2025-09-17T14:54:09.734Z",
"datePublished": "2025-09-17T14:56:56.752Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T19:43:35.800Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix race issue between cpu buffer write and swap\n\nWarning happened in rb_end_commit() at code:\n\tif (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&cpu_buffer->committing)))\n\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3142\n\trb_commit+0x402/0x4a0\n Call Trace:\n ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x42/0x250\n trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x250\n trace_event_buffer_commit+0xe5/0x440\n trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x11c/0x150\n trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x23c/0x2c0\n __traceiter_sched_switch+0x59/0x80\n __schedule+0x72b/0x1580\n schedule+0x92/0x120\n worker_thread+0xa0/0x6f0\n\nIt is because the race between writing event into cpu buffer and swapping\ncpu buffer through file per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot:\n\n Write on CPU 0 Swap buffer by per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot on CPU 1\n -------- --------\n tracing_snapshot_write()\n [...]\n\n ring_buffer_lock_reserve()\n cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; // 1. Suppose find 'cpu_buffer_a';\n [...]\n rb_reserve_next_event()\n [...]\n\n ring_buffer_swap_cpu()\n if (local_read(&cpu_buffer_a->committing))\n goto out_dec;\n if (local_read(&cpu_buffer_b->committing))\n goto out_dec;\n buffer_a->buffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_b;\n buffer_b->buffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_a;\n // 2. cpu_buffer has swapped here.\n\n rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);\n if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer->buffer)\n != buffer)) { // 3. This check passed due to 'cpu_buffer->buffer'\n [...] // has not changed here.\n return NULL;\n }\n cpu_buffer_b->buffer = buffer_a;\n cpu_buffer_a->buffer = buffer_b;\n [...]\n\n // 4. Reserve event from 'cpu_buffer_a'.\n\n ring_buffer_unlock_commit()\n [...]\n cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; // 5. Now find 'cpu_buffer_b' !!!\n rb_commit(cpu_buffer)\n rb_end_commit() // 6. WARN for the wrong 'committing' state !!!\n\nBased on above analysis, we can easily reproduce by following testcase:\n ``` bash\n #!/bin/bash\n\n dmesg -n 7\n sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1\n TR=/sys/kernel/tracing\n echo 7 > ${TR}/buffer_size_kb\n echo \"sched:sched_switch\" > ${TR}/set_event\n while [ true ]; do\n echo 1 > ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot\n done &\n while [ true ]; do\n echo 1 > ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot\n done &\n while [ true ]; do\n echo 1 > ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot\n done &\n ```\n\nTo fix it, IIUC, we can use smp_call_function_single() to do the swap on\nthe target cpu where the buffer is located, so that above race would be\navoided."
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