# CVE-2023-53030: octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context

> A bug in the octeontx2-pf driver causes a kernel warning and potential instability by using GFP_KERNEL in atomic context, leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53030, GHSA-cw78-q654-793w, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53030

## What is CVE-2023-53030?

CVE-2023-53030 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context

Using GFP_KERNEL in preemption disable context, causing below warning
when CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP is enabled.

[   32.542271] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:274
[   32.550883] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
[   32.558707] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[   32.562710] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[   32.566800] CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.2.0-rc2-00269-gae9dcb91c606 #7
[   32.576188] Hardware name: Marvell CN106XX board (DT)
[   32.581232] Call trace:
[   32.583670]  dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe0/0xf0
[   32.587937]  show_stack+0x18/0x30
[   32.591245]  dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
[   32.594900]  dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[   32.598206]  __might_resched+0x12c/0x160
[   32.602122]  __might_sleep+0x48/0xa0
[   32.605689]  __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x2b8/0x2e0
[   32.610301]  __kmalloc+0x58/0x190
[   32.613610]  otx2_sq_aura_pool_init+0x1a8/0x314
[   32.618134]  otx2_open+0x1d4/0x9d0

To avoid use of GFP_ATOMIC for memory allocation, disable preemption
after all memory allocation is done.

Weakness: CWE-667 (Improper Locking)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53030?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-53030?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2023-53030 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53030 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53030 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-53030 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53030 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53030/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53030/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53030
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53030
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-53030

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