CVE-2023-53152 drm/amdgpu: fix calltrace warning in amddrm_buddy_fini
A memory management error in the amdgpu driver causes a call trace warning and potential system instability during driver removal.
- 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
What is CVE-2023-53152?
CVE-2023-53152 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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:
drm/amdgpu: fix calltrace warning in amddrm_buddy_fini
The following call trace is observed when removing the amdgpu driver, which is caused by that BOs allocated for psp are not freed until removing.
[61811.450562] RIP: 0010:amddrm_buddy_fini.cold+0x29/0x47 [amddrm_buddy] [61811.450577] Call Trace: [61811.450577] <TASK> [61811.450579] amdgpu_vram_mgr_fini+0x135/0x1c0 [amdgpu] [61811.450728] amdgpu_ttm_fini+0x207/0x290 [amdgpu] [61811.450870] amdgpu_bo_fini+0x27/0xa0 [amdgpu] [61811.451012] gmc_v9_0_sw_fini+0x4a/0x60 [amdgpu] [61811.451166] amdgpu_device_fini_sw+0x117/0x520 [amdgpu] [61811.451306] amdgpu_driver_release_kms+0x16/0x30 [amdgpu] [61811.451447] devm_drm_dev_init_release+0x4d/0x80 [drm] [61811.451466] devm_action_release+0x15/0x20 [61811.451469] release_nodes+0x40/0xb0 [61811.451471] devres_release_all+0x9b/0xd0 [61811.451473] __device_release_driver+0x1bb/0x2a0 [61811.451476] driver_detach+0xf3/0x140 [61811.451479] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xf0 [61811.451481] driver_unregister+0x31/0x60 [61811.451483] pci_unregister_driver+0x40/0x90 [61811.451486] amdgpu_exit+0x15/0x447 [amdgpu]
For smu v13_0_2, if the GPU supports xgmi, refer to
commit f5c7e7797060 ("drm/amdgpu: Adjust removal control flow for smu v13_0_2"),
it will run gpu recover in AMDGPU_RESET_FOR_DEVICE_REMOVE mode when removing, which makes all devices in hive list have hw reset but no resume except the basic ip blocks, then other ip blocks will not call .hw_fini according to ip_block.status.hw.
Since psp_free_shared_bufs just includes some software operations, so move it to psp_sw_fini.
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53152?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2023-53152?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2023-53152 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53152 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-70748, BELL-CVE-2023-53152, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53152, GHSA-c3cj-qmvm-36gx, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-53152, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53152 and 1 more.