CVE-2023-54246

rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_writer() schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() to _idle()

published December 30, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_writer() schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() to _idle()

The rcuscale.holdoff module parameter can be used to delay the start

of rcu_scale_writer() kthread. However, the hung-task timeout will

trigger when the timeout specified by rcuscale.holdoff is greater than

hung_task_timeout_secs:

runqemu kvm nographic slirp qemuparams="-smp 4 -m 2048M"

bootparams="rcuscale.shutdown=0 rcuscale.holdoff=300"

[ 247.071753] INFO: task rcu_scale_write:59 blocked for more than 122 seconds.

[ 247.072529] Not tainted 6.4.0-rc1-00134-gb9ed6de8d4ff #7

[ 247.073400] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

[ 247.074331] task:rcu_scale_write state:D stack:30144 pid:59 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000

[ 247.075346] Call Trace:

[ 247.075660] <TASK>

[ 247.075965] __schedule+0x635/0x1280

[ 247.076448] ? __pfx___schedule+0x10/0x10

[ 247.076967] ? schedule_timeout+0x2dc/0x4d0

[ 247.077471] ? __pfx_lock_release+0x10/0x10

[ 247.078018] ? enqueue_timer+0xe2/0x220

[ 247.078522] schedule+0x84/0x120

[ 247.078957] schedule_timeout+0x2e1/0x4d0

[ 247.079447] ? __pfx_schedule_timeout+0x10/0x10

[ 247.080032] ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10

[ 247.080591] ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10

[ 247.081163] ? __pfx_sched_set_fifo_low+0x10/0x10

[ 247.081760] ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10

[ 247.082287] rcu_scale_writer+0x6b1/0x7f0

[ 247.082773] ? mark_held_locks+0x29/0xa0

[ 247.083252] ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10

[ 247.083865] ? __pfx_rcu_scale_writer+0x10/0x10

[ 247.084412] kthread+0x179/0x1c0

[ 247.084759] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10

[ 247.085098] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50

[ 247.085433] </TASK>

This commit therefore replaces schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() with

schedule_timeout_idle().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00200 · 9.4th percentile
Published
2025-12-30T12:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 DEC 12:15Z
    rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_writer() schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() to _idle()
    cvelistv5