CVE-2023-53742

published 2025-12-08

CVE-2023-53742: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kcsan: Avoid READ_ONCE() in read_instrumented_memory() Haibo Li reported: | Unable to…

Priority P4 22

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kcsan: Avoid READ_ONCE() in read_instrumented_memory()

Haibo Li reported:

| Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
| ffffff802a0d8d7171
| Mem abort info:o:
| ESR = 0x9600002121
| EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bitsts
| SET = 0, FnV = 0 0
| EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 0
| FSC = 0x21: alignment fault
| Data abort info:o:
| ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000002121
| CM = 0, WnR = 0 0
| swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=000000002835200000
| [ffffff802a0d8d71] pgd=180000005fbf9003, p4d=180000005fbf9003,
| pud=180000005fbf9003, pmd=180000005fbe8003, pte=006800002a0d8707
| Internal error: Oops: 96000021 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 2 PID: 45 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Not tainted
| 5.15.78-android13-8-g63561175bbda-dirty #1
| ...
| pc : kcsan_setup_watchpoint+0x26c/0x6bc
| lr : kcsan_setup_watchpoint+0x88/0x6bc
| sp : ffffffc00ab4b7f0
| x29: ffffffc00ab4b800 x28: ffffff80294fe588 x27: 0000000000000001
| x26: 0000000000000019 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffff80294fdb80
| x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffffffc00a70fb68 x21: ffffff802a0d8d71
| x20: 0000000000000002 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffffffc00a9bd060
| x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffffffc00a59f000
| x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: ffffffc00a70faa0
| x11: 00000000aaaaaaab x10: 0000000000000054 x9 : ffffffc00839adf8
| x8 : ffffffc009b4cf00 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000007
| x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffffffc00a70fb70
| x2 : 0005ff802a0d8d71 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
| Call trace:
| kcsan_setup_watchpoint+0x26c/0x6bc
| __tsan_read2+0x1f0/0x234
| inflate_fast+0x498/0x750
| zlib_inflate+0x1304/0x2384
| __gunzip+0x3a0/0x45c
| gunzip+0x20/0x30
| unpack_to_rootfs+0x2a8/0x3fc
| do_populate_rootfs+0xe8/0x11c
| async_run_entry_fn+0x58/0x1bc
| process_one_work+0x3ec/0x738
| worker_thread+0x4c4/0x838
| kthread+0x20c/0x258
| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
| Code: b8

Affected

12 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)	linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= dfd402a4c4baae42398ce9180ff424d589b8bffc < 706ae665747b629bcf87a2d7e6438602f904b8d5	706ae665747b629bcf87a2d7e6438602f904b8d5
linux	linux	>= dfd402a4c4baae42398ce9180ff424d589b8bffc < 75c03a8cfc731519236f08c34c7e029ae153a613	75c03a8cfc731519236f08c34c7e029ae153a613
linux	linux	>= dfd402a4c4baae42398ce9180ff424d589b8bffc < f8f2297355513e5e0631e604ef9d7e449c7dcd00	f8f2297355513e5e0631e604ef9d7e449c7dcd00
linux	linux	>= dfd402a4c4baae42398ce9180ff424d589b8bffc < 8dec88070d964bfeb4198f34cb5956d89dd1f557	8dec88070d964bfeb4198f34cb5956d89dd1f557
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.37-1	6.1.37-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.3.7-1	6.3.7-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.3.7-1	6.3.7-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.8.0 < 6.1.28	6.1.28
linux	linux_kernel	>= 6.2.0 < 6.2.15	6.2.15
linux	linux_kernel	>= 6.3.0 < 6.3.2	6.3.2

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