{"cve":"CVE-2023-52813","nvd":{"published":"2024-05-21T16:15:19.477","modified":"2026-06-17T06:43:38.660","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: pcrypt - Fix hungtask for PADATA_RESET\n\nWe found a hungtask bug in test_aead_vec_cfg as follows:\n\nINFO: task cryptomgr_test:391009 blocked for more than 120 seconds.\n\"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\nCall trace:\n __switch_to+0x98/0xe0\n __schedule+0x6c4/0xf40\n schedule+0xd8/0x1b4\n schedule_timeout+0x474/0x560\n wait_for_common+0x368/0x4e0\n wait_for_completion+0x20/0x30\n wait_for_completion+0x20/0x30\n test_aead_vec_cfg+0xab4/0xd50\n test_aead+0x144/0x1f0\n alg_test_aead+0xd8/0x1e0\n alg_test+0x634/0x890\n cryptomgr_test+0x40/0x70\n kthread+0x1e0/0x220\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18\n Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks\n\nFor padata_do_parallel, when the return err is 0 or -EBUSY, it will call\nwait_for_completion(&wait->completion) in test_aead_vec_cfg. In normal\ncase, aead_request_complete() will be called in pcrypt_aead_serial and the\nreturn err is 0 for padata_do_parallel. But, when pinst->flags is\nPADATA_RESET, the return err is -EBUSY for padata_do_parallel, and it\nwon't call aead_request_complete(). Therefore, test_aead_vec_cfg will\nhung at wait_for_completion(&wait->completion), which will cause\nhungtask.\n\nThe problem comes as following:\n(padata_do_parallel)                 |\n    rcu_read_lock_bh();              |\n    err = -EINVAL;                   |   (padata_replace)\n                                     |     pinst->flags |= PADATA_RESET;\n    err = -EBUSY                     |\n    if (pinst->flags & PADATA_RESET) |\n        rcu_read_unlock_bh()         |\n        return err\n\nIn order to resolve the problem, we replace the return err -EBUSY with\n-EAGAIN, which means parallel_data is changing, and the caller should call\nit again.\n\nv3:\nremove retry and just change the return err.\nv2:\nintroduce padata_try_do_parallel() in pcrypt_aead_encrypt and\npcrypt_aead_decrypt to solve the hungtask.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/039fec48e062504f14845124a1a25eb199b2ddc0","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/372636debe852913529b1716f44addd94fff2d28","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/546c1796ad1ed0d87dab3c4b5156d75819be2316","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f4f68e788c3a7a696546291258bfa5fdb215523","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c55fc098fd9d2dca475b82d00ffbcaf97879d77e"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:50:30.954589733+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-52813","score":0.00286,"percentile":0.21126,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}