CVE-2023-53073

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/amd/core: Always clear status for idx The variable 'status' which contains the unhandled overflow bits is not being properly masked in some cases, displaying the following warning: WARNING: CPU: 156 PID: 475601 at...

CVE-2023-53073 perf/x86/amd/core: Always clear status for idx

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/amd/core: Always clear status for idx The variable 'status' which contains the unhandled overflow bits is not being properly masked in some cases, displaying the following warning: WARNING: CPU: 156 PID: 475601 at...

CVE-2023-53073

CVE-2023-53073 documents a Linux kernel issue in perf/x86/amd/core where the unhandled overflow status bits were not consistently masked when the loop continued after x86_perf_event_set_period() could return 0. This caused a warning and an inconsistency because the 'handled' counter could be incr...