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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53031" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:59.607Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:37:13.647Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53031" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53031.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53031" title: "powerpc/imc-pmu: Fix use of mutex in IRQs disabled section" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/imc-pmu: Fix use of mutex in IRQs disabled section\n\nCurrent imc-pmu code triggers a WARNING with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP\nand CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING enabled, while running a thread_imc event.\n\nCommand to trigger the warning:\n # perf stat -e thread_imc/CPM_CS_FROM_L4_MEM_X_DPTEG/ sleep 5\n\n Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5':\n\n 0 thread_imc/CPM_CS_FROM_L4_MEM_X_DPTEG/\n\n 5.002117947 seconds time elapsed\n\n 0.000131000 seconds user\n 0.001063000 seconds sys\n\nBelow is snippet of the warning in dmesg:\n\n BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580\n in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 2869, name: perf-exec\n preempt_count: 2, expected: 0\n 4 locks held by perf-exec/2869:\n #0: c00000004325c540 (&sig-\u003ecred_guard_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: bprm_execve+0x64/0xa90\n #1: c00000004325c5d8 (&sig-\u003eexec_update_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: begin_new_exec+0x460/0xef0\n #2: c0000003fa99d4e0 (&cpuctx_lock){-...}-{2:2}, at: perf_event_exec+0x290/0x510\n #3: c000000017ab8418 (&ctx-\u003elock){....}-{2:2}, at: perf_event_exec+0x29c/0x510\n irq event stamp: 4806\n hardirqs last enabled at (4805): [\u003cc000000000f65b94\u003e] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x94/0xd0\n hardirqs last disabled at (4806): [\u003cc0000000003fae44\u003e] perf_event_exec+0x394/0x510\n softirqs last enabled at (0): [\u003cc00000000013c404\u003e] copy_process+0xc34/0x1ff0\n softirqs last disabled at (0): [\u003c0000000000000000\u003e] 0x0\n CPU: 36 PID: 2869 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2 #61\n Hardware name: 8375-42A POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:v7.0-16-g9b85f7d961 PowerNV\n Call Trace:\n dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xe0 (unreliable)\n __might_resched+0x2f8/0x310\n __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x13f0\n thread_imc_event_add+0xf4/0x1b0\n event_sched_in+0xe0/0x210\n merge_sched_in+0x1f0/0x600\n visit_groups_merge.isra.92.constprop.166+0x2bc/0x6c0\n ctx_flexible_sched_in+0xcc/0x140\n ctx_sched_in+0x20c/0x2a0\n ctx_resched+0x104/0x1c0\n perf_event_exec+0x340/0x510\n begin_new_exec+0x730/0xef0\n load_elf_binary+0x3f8/0x1e10\n ...\n do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=2001 set at [\u003c00000000fd63e7cf\u003e] do_nanosleep+0x60/0x1a0\n WARNING: CPU: 36 PID: 2869 at kernel/sched/core.c:9912 __might_sleep+0x9c/0xb0\n CPU: 36 PID: 2869 Comm: sleep Tainted: G W 6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2 #61\n Hardware name: 8375-42A POWER9 0x4e1202 opal:v7.0-16-g9b85f7d961 PowerNV\n NIP: c000000000194a1c LR: c000000000194a18 CTR: c000000000a78670\n REGS: c00000004d2134e0 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G W (6.2.0-rc2-00011-g1247637727f2)\n MSR: 9000000000021033 \u003cSF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE\u003e CR: 48002824 XER: 00000000\n CFAR: c00000000013fb64 IRQMASK: 1\n\nThe above warning triggered because the current imc-pmu code uses mutex\nlock in interrupt disabled sections. The function mutex_lock()\ninternally calls __might_resched(), which will check if IRQs are\ndisabled and in case IRQs are disabled, it will trigger the warning.\n\nFix the issue by changing the mutex lock to spinlock.\n\n[mpe: Fix comments, trim oops in change log, add reported-by tags]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8f95faaac56c18b32d0e23ace55417a440abdb7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d0c6d2a31026102d4738b47a610bed4401b9834f"},{"version":"8f95faaac56c18b32d0e23ace55417a440abdb7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8cbeb60320ac45a8240b561c8ef466b86c34dedc"},{"version":"8f95faaac56c18b32d0e23ace55417a440abdb7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a90d339f1f66be4a946769b565668e2bd0686dfa"},{"version":"8f95faaac56c18b32d0e23ace55417a440abdb7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"424bcb570cb320d1d15238cd4c933522b90f78fa"},{"version":"8f95faaac56c18b32d0e23ace55417a440abdb7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76d588dddc459fefa1da96e0a081a397c5c8e216"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.164","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.89","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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