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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53368" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-17T14:56:56.752Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:43:35.800Z" 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-2023-53368" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53368.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53368" title: "tracing: Fix race issue between cpu buffer write and swap" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix race issue between cpu buffer write and swap\n\nWarning happened in rb_end_commit() at code:\n\tif (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&cpu_buffer-\u003ecommitting)))\n\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3142\n\trb_commit+0x402/0x4a0\n Call Trace:\n ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x42/0x250\n trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x250\n trace_event_buffer_commit+0xe5/0x440\n trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x11c/0x150\n trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch+0x23c/0x2c0\n __traceiter_sched_switch+0x59/0x80\n __schedule+0x72b/0x1580\n schedule+0x92/0x120\n worker_thread+0xa0/0x6f0\n\nIt is because the race between writing event into cpu buffer and swapping\ncpu buffer through file per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot:\n\n Write on CPU 0 Swap buffer by per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot on CPU 1\n -------- --------\n tracing_snapshot_write()\n [...]\n\n ring_buffer_lock_reserve()\n cpu_buffer = buffer-\u003ebuffers[cpu]; // 1. Suppose find 'cpu_buffer_a';\n [...]\n rb_reserve_next_event()\n [...]\n\n ring_buffer_swap_cpu()\n if (local_read(&cpu_buffer_a-\u003ecommitting))\n goto out_dec;\n if (local_read(&cpu_buffer_b-\u003ecommitting))\n goto out_dec;\n buffer_a-\u003ebuffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_b;\n buffer_b-\u003ebuffers[cpu] = cpu_buffer_a;\n // 2. cpu_buffer has swapped here.\n\n rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);\n if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer-\u003ebuffer)\n != buffer)) { // 3. This check passed due to 'cpu_buffer-\u003ebuffer'\n [...] // has not changed here.\n return NULL;\n }\n cpu_buffer_b-\u003ebuffer = buffer_a;\n cpu_buffer_a-\u003ebuffer = buffer_b;\n [...]\n\n // 4. Reserve event from 'cpu_buffer_a'.\n\n ring_buffer_unlock_commit()\n [...]\n cpu_buffer = buffer-\u003ebuffers[cpu]; // 5. Now find 'cpu_buffer_b' !!!\n rb_commit(cpu_buffer)\n rb_end_commit() // 6. WARN for the wrong 'committing' state !!!\n\nBased on above analysis, we can easily reproduce by following testcase:\n ``` bash\n #!/bin/bash\n\n dmesg -n 7\n sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1\n TR=/sys/kernel/tracing\n echo 7 \u003e ${TR}/buffer_size_kb\n echo \"sched:sched_switch\" \u003e ${TR}/set_event\n while [ true ]; do\n echo 1 \u003e ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot\n done &\n while [ true ]; do\n echo 1 \u003e ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot\n done &\n while [ true ]; do\n echo 1 \u003e ${TR}/per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot\n done &\n ```\n\nTo fix it, IIUC, we can use smp_call_function_single() to do the swap on\nthe target cpu where the buffer is located, so that above race would be\navoided." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f1affcaaa861f27752a769f889bf1486ebd301fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90e037cabc2c2dfc39b3dd9c5b22ea91f995539a"},{"version":"f1affcaaa861f27752a769f889bf1486ebd301fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5d30d6aa83d99fba8dfdd9cf6c4e4e7a63244db"},{"version":"f1affcaaa861f27752a769f889bf1486ebd301fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6182318ac04648b46db9d441fd7d696337fcdd0b"},{"version":"f1affcaaa861f27752a769f889bf1486ebd301fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74c85396bd73eca80b96510b4edf93b9a3aff75f"},{"version":"f1affcaaa861f27752a769f889bf1486ebd301fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89c89da92a60028013f9539be0dcce7e44405a43"},{"version":"f1affcaaa861f27752a769f889bf1486ebd301fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37ca1b686078b00cc4ffa008e2190615f7709b5d"},{"version":"f1affcaaa861f27752a769f889bf1486ebd301fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3163f635b20e9e1fb4659e74f47918c9dddfe64e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"version":"5.4.257","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.195","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.132","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","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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