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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53169"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:04:02.395Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:36.360Z"
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-2023-53169"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53169.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53169"
title: "x86/resctrl: Clear staged_config[] before and after it is used"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/resctrl: Clear staged_config[] before and after it is used\n\nAs a temporary storage, staged_config[] in rdt_domain should be cleared\nbefore and after it is used. The stale value in staged_config[] could\ncause an MSR access error.\n\nHere is a reproducer on a system with 16 usable CLOSIDs for a 15-way L3\nCache (MBA should be disabled if the number of CLOSIDs for MB is less than\n16.) :\n\tmount -t resctrl resctrl -o cdp /sys/fs/resctrl\n\tmkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/p{1..7}\n\tumount /sys/fs/resctrl/\n\tmount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl\n\tmkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/p{1..8}\n\nAn error occurs when creating resource group named p8:\n    unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0xca0 (tried to write 0x00000000000007ff) at rIP: 0xffffffff82249142 (cat_wrmsr+0x32/0x60)\n    Call Trace:\n     \u003cIRQ\u003e\n     __flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x11d/0x170\n     __sysvec_call_function+0x24/0xd0\n     sysvec_call_function+0x89/0xc0\n     \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n     \u003cTASK\u003e\n     asm_sysvec_call_function+0x16/0x20\n\nWhen creating a new resource control group, hardware will be configured\nby the following process:\n    rdtgroup_mkdir()\n      rdtgroup_mkdir_ctrl_mon()\n        rdtgroup_init_alloc()\n          resctrl_arch_update_domains()\n\nresctrl_arch_update_domains() iterates and updates all resctrl_conf_type\nwhose have_new_ctrl is true. Since staged_config[] holds the same values as\nwhen CDP was enabled, it will continue to update the CDP_CODE and CDP_DATA\nconfigurations. When group p8 is created, get_config_index() called in\nresctrl_arch_update_domains() will return 16 and 17 as the CLOSIDs for\nCDP_CODE and CDP_DATA, which will be translated to an invalid register -\n0xca0 in this scenario.\n\nFix it by clearing staged_config[] before and after it is used.\n\n[reinette: re-order commit tags]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"75408e43509ed6207870c0e7e28656acbbc1f7fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86db319d25db70cf4af4557e05f6fa6f39c70003"},{"version":"75408e43509ed6207870c0e7e28656acbbc1f7fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3fc5941ecc31a495b6b84b465f36155009db99b5"},{"version":"75408e43509ed6207870c0e7e28656acbbc1f7fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ecc60ef9318f0d533b866fa421858cc185bccfc"},{"version":"75408e43509ed6207870c0e7e28656acbbc1f7fd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0424a7dfe9129b93f29b277511a60e87f052ac6b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.104","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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