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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53522"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:46:08.909Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:46:36.143Z"
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-2023-53522"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53522.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53522"
title: "cgroup,freezer: hold cpu_hotplug_lock before freezer_mutex"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncgroup,freezer: hold cpu_hotplug_lock before freezer_mutex\n\nsyzbot is reporting circular locking dependency between cpu_hotplug_lock\nand freezer_mutex, for commit f5d39b020809 (\"freezer,sched: Rewrite core\nfreezer logic\") replaced atomic_inc() in freezer_apply_state() with\nstatic_branch_inc() which holds cpu_hotplug_lock.\n\ncpu_hotplug_lock =\u003e cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem =\u003e freezer_mutex\n\n  cgroup_file_write() {\n    cgroup_procs_write() {\n      __cgroup_procs_write() {\n        cgroup_procs_write_start() {\n          cgroup_attach_lock() {\n            cpus_read_lock() {\n              percpu_down_read(&cpu_hotplug_lock);\n            }\n            percpu_down_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);\n          }\n        }\n        cgroup_attach_task() {\n          cgroup_migrate() {\n            cgroup_migrate_execute() {\n              freezer_attach() {\n                mutex_lock(&freezer_mutex);\n                (...snipped...)\n              }\n            }\n          }\n        }\n        (...snipped...)\n      }\n    }\n  }\n\nfreezer_mutex =\u003e cpu_hotplug_lock\n\n  cgroup_file_write() {\n    freezer_write() {\n      freezer_change_state() {\n        mutex_lock(&freezer_mutex);\n        freezer_apply_state() {\n          static_branch_inc(&freezer_active) {\n            static_key_slow_inc() {\n              cpus_read_lock();\n              static_key_slow_inc_cpuslocked();\n              cpus_read_unlock();\n            }\n          }\n        }\n        mutex_unlock(&freezer_mutex);\n      }\n    }\n  }\n\nSwap locking order by moving cpus_read_lock() in freezer_apply_state()\nto before mutex_lock(&freezer_mutex) in freezer_change_state()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f5d39b020809146cc28e6e73369bf8065e0310aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3756171b97c307d9df8b8ded1d883eec30172085"},{"version":"f5d39b020809146cc28e6e73369bf8065e0310aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34fbb7b45bae20b551dda24337c7761ca13ce69d"},{"version":"f5d39b020809146cc28e6e73369bf8065e0310aa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57dcd64c7e036299ef526b400a8d12b8a2352f26"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.25","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.12","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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