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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53730" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:58.419Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:50:44.742Z" 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-2023-53730" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53730.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53730" title: "blk-iocost: use spin_lock_irqsave in adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-iocost: use spin_lock_irqsave in adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost\n\nadjust_inuse_and_calc_cost() use spin_lock_irq() and IRQ will be enabled\nwhen unlock. DEADLOCK might happen if we have held other locks and disabled\nIRQ before invoking it.\n\nFix it by using spin_lock_irqsave() instead, which can keep IRQ state\nconsistent with before when unlock.\n\n ================================\n WARNING: inconsistent lock state\n 5.10.0-02758-g8e5f91fd772f #26 Not tainted\n --------------------------------\n inconsistent {IN-HARDIRQ-W} -\u003e {HARDIRQ-ON-W} usage.\n kworker/2:3/388 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:\n ffff888118c00c28 (&bfqd-\u003elock){?.-.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock_irq\n ffff888118c00c28 (&bfqd-\u003elock){?.-.}-{2:2}, at: bfq_bio_merge+0x141/0x390\n {IN-HARDIRQ-W} state was registered at:\n __lock_acquire+0x3d7/0x1070\n lock_acquire+0x197/0x4a0\n __raw_spin_lock_irqsave\n _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x60\n bfq_idle_slice_timer_body\n bfq_idle_slice_timer+0x53/0x1d0\n __run_hrtimer+0x477/0xa70\n __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1c6/0x2d0\n hrtimer_interrupt+0x302/0x9e0\n local_apic_timer_interrupt\n __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xfd/0x420\n run_sysvec_on_irqstack_cond\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x46/0xa0\n asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20\n irq event stamp: 837522\n hardirqs last enabled at (837521): [\u003cffffffff84b9419d\u003e] __raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore\n hardirqs last enabled at (837521): [\u003cffffffff84b9419d\u003e] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3d/0x40\n hardirqs last disabled at (837522): [\u003cffffffff84b93fa3\u003e] __raw_spin_lock_irq\n hardirqs last disabled at (837522): [\u003cffffffff84b93fa3\u003e] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x43/0x50\n softirqs last enabled at (835852): [\u003cffffffff84e00558\u003e] __do_softirq+0x558/0x8ec\n softirqs last disabled at (835845): [\u003cffffffff84c010ff\u003e] asm_call_irq_on_stack+0xf/0x20\n\n other info that might help us debug this:\n Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n\n CPU0\n ----\n lock(&bfqd-\u003elock);\n \u003cInterrupt\u003e\n lock(&bfqd-\u003elock);\n\n *** DEADLOCK ***\n\n 3 locks held by kworker/2:3/388:\n #0: ffff888107af0f38 ((wq_completion)kthrotld){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x742/0x13f0\n #1: ffff8881176bfdd8 ((work_completion)(&td-\u003edispatch_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x777/0x13f0\n #2: ffff888118c00c28 (&bfqd-\u003elock){?.-.}-{2:2}, at: spin_lock_irq\n #2: ffff888118c00c28 (&bfqd-\u003elock){?.-.}-{2:2}, at: bfq_bio_merge+0x141/0x390\n\n stack backtrace:\n CPU: 2 PID: 388 Comm: kworker/2:3 Not tainted 5.10.0-02758-g8e5f91fd772f #26\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: kthrotld blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn\n Call Trace:\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]\n dump_stack+0x107/0x167\n print_usage_bug\n valid_state\n mark_lock_irq.cold+0x32/0x3a\n mark_lock+0x693/0xbc0\n mark_held_locks+0x9e/0xe0\n __trace_hardirqs_on_caller\n lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare.part.0+0x151/0x360\n trace_hardirqs_on+0x5b/0x180\n __raw_spin_unlock_irq\n _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x40\n spin_unlock_irq\n adjust_inuse_and_calc_cost+0x4fb/0x970\n ioc_rqos_merge+0x277/0x740\n __rq_qos_merge+0x62/0xb0\n rq_qos_merge\n bio_attempt_back_merge+0x12c/0x4a0\n blk_mq_sched_try_merge+0x1b6/0x4d0\n bfq_bio_merge+0x24a/0x390\n __blk_mq_sched_bio_merge+0xa6/0x460\n blk_mq_sched_bio_merge\n blk_mq_submit_bio+0x2e7/0x1ee0\n __submit_bio_noacct_mq+0x175/0x3b0\n submit_bio_noacct+0x1fb/0x270\n blk_throtl_dispatch_work_fn+0x1ef/0x2b0\n process_one_work+0x83e/0x13f0\n process_scheduled_works\n worker_thread+0x7e3/0xd80\n kthread+0x353/0x470\n ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30" affected: 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