# CVE-2023-53656: drivers/perf: hisi: Don't migrate perf to the CPU going to teardown

> A race condition in the HiSilicon PCIe PMU driver can cause a kernel deadlock during CPU teardown, leading to a 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:** 7 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2023-53656, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53656, GHSA-3f5v-f3mc-6rj8, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53656

## What is CVE-2023-53656?

CVE-2023-53656 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Oct 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:

drivers/perf: hisi: Don't migrate perf to the CPU going to teardown

The driver needs to migrate the perf context if the current using CPU going
to teardown. By the time calling the cpuhp::teardown() callback the
cpu_online_mask() hasn't updated yet and still includes the CPU going to
teardown. In current driver's implementation we may migrate the context
to the teardown CPU and leads to the below calltrace:

...
[  368.104662][  T932] task:cpuhp/0         state:D stack:    0 pid:   15 ppid:     2 flags:0x00000008
[  368.113699][  T932] Call trace:
[  368.116834][  T932]  __switch_to+0x7c/0xbc
[  368.120924][  T932]  __schedule+0x338/0x6f0
[  368.125098][  T932]  schedule+0x50/0xe0
[  368.128926][  T932]  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x18/0x24
[  368.134229][  T932]  __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x1d4/0x5dc
[  368.139617][  T932]  __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1c/0x30
[  368.144573][  T932]  mutex_lock+0x50/0x60
[  368.148579][  T932]  perf_pmu_migrate_context+0x84/0x2b0
[  368.153884][  T932]  hisi_pcie_pmu_offline_cpu+0x90/0xe0 [hisi_pcie_pmu]
[  368.160579][  T932]  cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2a0/0x650
[  368.165707][  T932]  cpuhp_thread_fun+0xe4/0x190
[  368.170316][  T932]  smpboot_thread_fn+0x15c/0x1a0
[  368.175099][  T932]  kthread+0x108/0x13c
[  368.179012][  T932]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
...

Use function cpumask_any_but() to find one correct active cpu to fixes
this issue.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-53656?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-53656?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2023-53656 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53656 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [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-2023-53656 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-53656 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Oct 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-2023-53656 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-2023-53656/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53656/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53656
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53656
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-53656

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