CVE: CVE-2023-53563
Published: 2025-10-04
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cpufreq: amd-pstate-ut: Fix kernel panic when loading the driver

After loading the amd-pstate-ut driver, amd_pstate_ut_check_perf()
and amd_pstate_ut_check_freq() use cpufreq_cpu_get() to get the policy
of the CPU and mark it as busy.

In these functions, cpufreq_cpu_put() should be used to release the
policy, but it is not, so any other entity trying to access the policy
is blocked indefinitely.

One such scenario is when amd_pstate mode is changed, leading to the
following splat:

[ 1332.103727] INFO: task bash:2929 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 1332.110001]       Not tainted 6.5.0-rc2-amd-pstate-ut #5
[ 1332.115315] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 1332.123140] task:bash            state:D stack:0     pid:2929  ppid:2873   flags:0x00004006
[ 1332.123143] Call Trace:
[ 1332.123145]  <TASK>
[ 1332.123148]  __schedule+0x3c1/0x16a0
[ 1332.123154]  ? _raw_read_lock_irqsave+0x2d/0x70
[ 1332.123157]  schedule+0x6f/0x110
[ 1332.123160]  schedule_timeout+0x14f/0x160
[ 1332.123162]  ? preempt_count_add+0x86/0xd0
[ 1332.123165]  __wait_for_common+0x92/0x190
[ 1332.123168]  ? __pfx_schedule_timeout+0x10/0x10
[ 1332.123170]  wait_for_completion+0x28/0x30
[ 1332.123173]  cpufreq_policy_put_kobj+0x4d/0x90
[ 1332.123177]  cpufreq_policy_free+0x157/0x1d0
[ 1332.123178]  ? preempt_count_add+0x58/0xd0
[ 1332.123180]  cpufreq_remove_dev+0xb6/0x100
[ 1332.123182]  subsys_interface_unregister+0x114/0x120
[ 1332.123185]  ? preempt_count_add+0x58/0xd0
[ 1332.123187]  ? __pfx_amd_pstate_change_driver_mode+0x10/0x10
[ 1332.123190]  cpufreq_unregister_driver+0x3b/0xd0
[ 1332.123192]  amd_pstate_change_driver_mode+0x1e/0x50
[ 1332.123194]  store_status+0xe9/0x180
[ 1332.123197]  dev_attr_store+0x1b/0x30
[ 1332.123199]  sysfs_kf_write+0x42/0x50
[ 1332.123202]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x143/0x1d0
[ 1332.123204]  vfs_write+0x2df/0x400
[ 1332.123208]  ksys_write+0x6b/0xf0
[ 1332.123210]  __x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30
[ 1332.123213]  do_syscall_64+0x60/0x90
[ 1332.123216]  ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x2e/0x50
[ 1332.123219]  ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x49/0x1a0
[ 1332.123223]  ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xd/0x20
[ 1332.123225]  ? irqentry_exit+0x3f/0x50
[ 1332.123226]  ? exc_page_fault+0x8e/0x190
[ 1332.123228]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[ 1332.123232] RIP: 0033:0x7fa74c514a37
[ 1332.123234] RSP: 002b:00007ffe31dd0788 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 1332.123238] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: 00007fa74c514a37
[ 1332.123239] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: 000055e27c447aa0 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 1332.123241] RBP: 000055e27c447aa0 R08: 00007fa74c5d1460 R09: 000000007fffffff
[ 1332.123242] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 1332.123244] R13: 00007fa74c61a780 R14: 00007fa74c616600 R15: 00007fa74c615a00
[ 1332.123247]  </TASK>

Fix this by calling cpufreq_cpu_put() wherever necessary.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f74f12ee042fd72e45f0e8700e063c84ef3883b; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60dd283804479c4a52f995b713f448e2cd65b8c8; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84857640c67405eed258c461b3ef909002f1e201