5.5

CVE-2023-53030: octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-53030DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53030
Published 27-03-2025Last modified 23-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-53030 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Improper Locking vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.15%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 4
RHSA-2023:2458SUSE-SU-2025:1176-1SUSE-SU-2025:1183-1SUSE-SU-2025:1195-1SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1

Timeline

  1. 27-03-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context Using GFP_KERNEL in preemption disable context, causing below warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is enabled. [ 32.542271] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:274 [ 32.550883] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0 [ 32.558707] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 [ 32.562710] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 [ 32.566800] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.2.0-rc2-00269-gae9dcb91c606 #7 [ 32.576188] Hardware name: Marvell CN106XX board (DT) [ 32.581232] Call trace: [ 32.583670] dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe0/0xf0 [ 32.587937] show_stack+0x18/0x30 [ 32.591245] dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84 [ 32.594900] dump_stack+0x18/0x34 [ 32.598206] __might_resched+0x12c/0x160 [ 32.602122] __might_sleep+0x48/0xa0 [ 32.605689] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2b8/0x2e0 [ 32.610301] __kmalloc+0x58/0x190 [ 32.613610] otx2_sq_aura_pool_init+0x1a8/0x314 [ 32.618134] otx2_open+0x1d4/0x9d0 To avoid use of GFP_ATOMIC for memory allocation, disable preemption after all memory allocation is done.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.14% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu93 products
  • linux< 5.15.0-70.77
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.15.0-1034.38
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 6ea5273c71dd2d07c0a2459594eb34bc087939f7, < 2827c4eb429db64befdca11362e2b1c5f524f6ba | ≥ 667ce030bdfb62a86266444b2c3fd6ab98b9df9b, < 1eb57b87f106c90cee6b2a56a10f2e29c7a25f3e | ≥ 4af1b64f80fbe1275fb02c5f1c0cef099a4a231f, < 87b93b678e95c7d93fe6a55b0e0fbda26d8c7760 | b754dc7c933dd9464223f64b10d33d68ab086cc6 | ≥ 6.0.19, < 6.1 | ≥ 5.15.87, < 5.15.91 | ≥ 6.1.5, < 6.1.8
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.15.87, < 5.15.91 | ≥ 6.0.19, < 6.1 | ≥ 6.1.5, < 6.1.8 | 6.2:rc3 | 6.2:rc4
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.8-1

3 vendors · 96 products

References

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