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"cveId": "CVE-2023-53522",
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"dateReserved": "2025-10-01T11:39:39.407Z",
"datePublished": "2025-10-01T11:46:08.909Z",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncgroup,freezer: hold cpu_hotplug_lock before freezer_mutex\n\nsyzbot is reporting circular locking dependency between cpu_hotplug_lock\nand freezer_mutex, for commit f5d39b020809 (\"freezer,sched: Rewrite core\nfreezer logic\") replaced atomic_inc() in freezer_apply_state() with\nstatic_branch_inc() which holds cpu_hotplug_lock.\n\ncpu_hotplug_lock => cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem => freezer_mutex\n\n cgroup_file_write() {\n cgroup_procs_write() {\n __cgroup_procs_write() {\n cgroup_procs_write_start() {\n cgroup_attach_lock() {\n cpus_read_lock() {\n percpu_down_read(&cpu_hotplug_lock);\n }\n percpu_down_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);\n }\n }\n cgroup_attach_task() {\n cgroup_migrate() {\n cgroup_migrate_execute() {\n freezer_attach() {\n mutex_lock(&freezer_mutex);\n (...snipped...)\n }\n }\n }\n }\n (...snipped...)\n }\n }\n }\n\nfreezer_mutex => cpu_hotplug_lock\n\n cgroup_file_write() {\n freezer_write() {\n freezer_change_state() {\n mutex_lock(&freezer_mutex);\n freezer_apply_state() {\n static_branch_inc(&freezer_active) {\n static_key_slow_inc() {\n cpus_read_lock();\n static_key_slow_inc_cpuslocked();\n cpus_read_unlock();\n }\n }\n }\n mutex_unlock(&freezer_mutex);\n }\n }\n }\n\nSwap locking order by moving cpus_read_lock() in freezer_apply_state()\nto before mutex_lock(&freezer_mutex) in freezer_change_state()."
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