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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53577"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:17:16.632Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:14:55.401Z"
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-2023-53577"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53577.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53577"
title: "bpf, cpumap: Make sure kthread is running before map update returns"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, cpumap: Make sure kthread is running before map update returns\n\nThe following warning was reported when running stress-mode enabled\nxdp_redirect_cpu with some RT threads:\n\n  ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 65 at kernel/bpf/cpumap.c:135\n  CPU: 4 PID: 65 Comm: kworker/4:1 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc2+ #1\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)\n  Workqueue: events cpu_map_kthread_stop\n  RIP: 0010:put_cpu_map_entry+0xda/0x220\n  ......\n  Call Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   ? show_regs+0x65/0x70\n   ? __warn+0xa5/0x240\n   ......\n   ? put_cpu_map_entry+0xda/0x220\n   cpu_map_kthread_stop+0x41/0x60\n   process_one_work+0x6b0/0xb80\n   worker_thread+0x96/0x720\n   kthread+0x1a5/0x1f0\n   ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x70\n   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n   \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe root cause is the same as commit 436901649731 (\"bpf: cpumap: Fix memory\nleak in cpu_map_update_elem\"). The kthread is stopped prematurely by\nkthread_stop() in cpu_map_kthread_stop(), and kthread() doesn't call\ncpu_map_kthread_run() at all but XDP program has already queued some\nframes or skbs into ptr_ring. So when __cpu_map_ring_cleanup() checks\nthe ptr_ring, it will find it was not emptied and report a warning.\n\nAn alternative fix is to use __cpu_map_ring_cleanup() to drop these\npending frames or skbs when kthread_stop() returns -EINTR, but it may\nconfuse the user, because these frames or skbs have been handled\ncorrectly by XDP program. So instead of dropping these frames or skbs,\njust make sure the per-cpu kthread is running before\n__cpu_map_entry_alloc() returns.\n\nAfter apply the fix, the error handle for kthread_stop() will be\nunnecessary because it will always return 0, so just remove it."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6710e1126934d8b4372b4d2f9ae1646cd3f151bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b44d28b98f185d2f2348aa3c3636838c316f889e"},{"version":"6710e1126934d8b4372b4d2f9ae1646cd3f151bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7a1178a3671b40746830d355836b72e47ceb2490"},{"version":"6710e1126934d8b4372b4d2f9ae1646cd3f151bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ecb45b852af5e88257020b88bea5ff0798d72aca"},{"version":"6710e1126934d8b4372b4d2f9ae1646cd3f151bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"640a604585aa30f93e39b17d4d6ba69fcb1e66c9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"5.15.126","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.45","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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