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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53509"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:45:58.762Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:46:21.126Z"
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-2023-53509"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53509.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53509"
title: "qed: allow sleep in qed_mcp_trace_dump()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nqed: allow sleep in qed_mcp_trace_dump()\n\nBy default, qed_mcp_cmd_and_union() delays 10us at a time in a loop\nthat can run 500K times, so calls to qed_mcp_nvm_rd_cmd()\nmay block the current thread for over 5s.\nWe observed thread scheduling delays over 700ms in production,\nwith stacktraces pointing to this code as the culprit.\n\nqed_mcp_trace_dump() is called from ethtool, so sleeping is permitted.\nIt already can sleep in qed_mcp_halt(), which calls qed_mcp_cmd().\nAdd a \"can sleep\" parameter to qed_find_nvram_image() and\nqed_nvram_read() so they can sleep during qed_mcp_trace_dump().\nqed_mcp_trace_get_meta_info() and qed_mcp_trace_read_meta(),\ncalled only by qed_mcp_trace_dump(), allow these functions to sleep.\nI can't tell if the other caller (qed_grc_dump_mcp_hw_dump()) can sleep,\nso keep b_can_sleep set to false when it calls these functions.\n\nAn example stacktrace from a custom warning we added to the kernel\nshowing a thread that has not scheduled despite long needing resched:\n[ 2745.362925,17] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 2745.362941,17] WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 5640 at arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:233 do_IRQ+0x15e/0x1a0()\n[ 2745.362946,17] Thread not rescheduled for 744 ms after irq 99\n[ 2745.362956,17] Modules linked in: ...\n[ 2745.363339,17] CPU: 23 PID: 5640 Comm: lldpd Tainted: P           O    4.4.182+ #202104120910+6d1da174272d.61x\n[ 2745.363343,17] Hardware name: FOXCONN MercuryB/Quicksilver Controller, BIOS H11P1N09 07/08/2020\n[ 2745.363346,17]  0000000000000000 ffff885ec07c3ed8 ffffffff8131eb2f ffff885ec07c3f20\n[ 2745.363358,17]  ffffffff81d14f64 ffff885ec07c3f10 ffffffff81072ac2 ffff88be98ed0000\n[ 2745.363369,17]  0000000000000063 0000000000000174 0000000000000074 0000000000000000\n[ 2745.363379,17] Call Trace:\n[ 2745.363382,17]  \u003cIRQ\u003e  [\u003cffffffff8131eb2f\u003e] dump_stack+0x8e/0xcf\n[ 2745.363393,17]  [\u003cffffffff81072ac2\u003e] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0\n[ 2745.363398,17]  [\u003cffffffff81072b4c\u003e] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50\n[ 2745.363404,17]  [\u003cffffffff810d5a8e\u003e] ? rcu_irq_exit+0xae/0xc0\n[ 2745.363408,17]  [\u003cffffffff817c99fe\u003e] do_IRQ+0x15e/0x1a0\n[ 2745.363413,17]  [\u003cffffffff817c7ac9\u003e] common_interrupt+0x89/0x89\n[ 2745.363416,17]  \u003cEOI\u003e  [\u003cffffffff8132aa74\u003e] ? delay_tsc+0x24/0x50\n[ 2745.363425,17]  [\u003cffffffff8132aa04\u003e] __udelay+0x34/0x40\n[ 2745.363457,17]  [\u003cffffffffa04d45ff\u003e] qed_mcp_cmd_and_union+0x36f/0x7d0 [qed]\n[ 2745.363473,17]  [\u003cffffffffa04d5ced\u003e] qed_mcp_nvm_rd_cmd+0x4d/0x90 [qed]\n[ 2745.363490,17]  [\u003cffffffffa04e1dc7\u003e] qed_mcp_trace_dump+0x4a7/0x630 [qed]\n[ 2745.363504,17]  [\u003cffffffffa04e2556\u003e] ? qed_fw_asserts_dump+0x1d6/0x1f0 [qed]\n[ 2745.363520,17]  [\u003cffffffffa04e4ea7\u003e] qed_dbg_mcp_trace_get_dump_buf_size+0x37/0x80 [qed]\n[ 2745.363536,17]  [\u003cffffffffa04ea881\u003e] qed_dbg_feature_size+0x61/0xa0 [qed]\n[ 2745.363551,17]  [\u003cffffffffa04eb427\u003e] qed_dbg_all_data_size+0x247/0x260 [qed]\n[ 2745.363560,17]  [\u003cffffffffa0482c10\u003e] qede_get_regs_len+0x30/0x40 [qede]\n[ 2745.363566,17]  [\u003cffffffff816c9783\u003e] ethtool_get_drvinfo+0xe3/0x190\n[ 2745.363570,17]  [\u003cffffffff816cc152\u003e] dev_ethtool+0x1362/0x2140\n[ 2745.363575,17]  [\u003cffffffff8109bcc6\u003e] ? finish_task_switch+0x76/0x260\n[ 2745.363580,17]  [\u003cffffffff817c2116\u003e] ? __schedule+0x3c6/0x9d0\n[ 2745.363585,17]  [\u003cffffffff810dbd50\u003e] ? hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x1d0/0x370\n[ 2745.363589,17]  [\u003cffffffff816c1e5b\u003e] ? dev_get_by_name_rcu+0x6b/0x90\n[ 2745.363594,17]  [\u003cffffffff816de6a8\u003e] dev_ioctl+0xe8/0x710\n[ 2745.363599,17]  [\u003cffffffff816a58a8\u003e] sock_do_ioctl+0x48/0x60\n[ 2745.363603,17]  [\u003cffffffff816a5d87\u003e] sock_ioctl+0x1c7/0x280\n[ 2745.363608,17]  [\u003cffffffff8111f393\u003e] ? seccomp_phase1+0x83/0x220\n[ 2745.363612,17]  [\u003cffffffff811e3503\u003e] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2b3/0x4e0\n[ 2745.363616,17]  [\u003cffffffff811e3771\u003e] SyS_ioctl+0x41/0x70\n[ 2745.363619,17]  [\u003cffffffff817c6ffe\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0x79\n[ 2745.363622,17] ---[ end trace f6954aa440266421 ]---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c965db44462919f613973aa618271f6c3f5a1e64","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0387f4f39a8d92302273ac356d1f6b2a38160d8"},{"version":"c965db44462919f613973aa618271f6c3f5a1e64","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50c81b35df01db12b348c5cbf4b1917dc9a7db54"},{"version":"c965db44462919f613973aa618271f6c3f5a1e64","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5401c3e0992860b11fb4b25796e4c4f1921740df"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.9"},{"version":"6.0.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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