linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53103: bonding: restore bond's IFF_SLAVE flag if a non-eth dev enslave fails

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Message-ID: <2025050224-CVE-2023-53103-9c37@gregkh>
Date: Fri,  2 May 2025 17:56:08 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53103: bonding: restore bond's IFF_SLAVE flag if a non-eth dev enslave fails

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

bonding: restore bond's IFF_SLAVE flag if a non-eth dev enslave fails

syzbot reported a warning[1] where the bond device itself is a slave and
we try to enslave a non-ethernet device as the first slave which fails
but then in the error path when ether_setup() restores the bond device
it also clears all flags. In my previous fix[2] I restored the
IFF_MASTER flag, but I didn't consider the case that the bond device
itself might also be a slave with IFF_SLAVE set, so we need to restore
that flag as well. Use the bond_ether_setup helper which does the right
thing and restores the bond's flags properly.

Steps to reproduce using a nlmon dev:
 $ ip l add nlmon0 type nlmon
 $ ip l add bond1 type bond
 $ ip l add bond2 type bond
 $ ip l set bond1 master bond2
 $ ip l set dev nlmon0 master bond1
 $ ip -d l sh dev bond1
 22: bond1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master bond2 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
 (now bond1's IFF_SLAVE flag is gone and we'll hit a warning[3] if we
  try to delete it)

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=391c7b1f6522182899efba27d891f1743e8eb3ef
[2] commit 7d5cd2ce5292 ("bonding: correctly handle bonding type change on enslave failure")
[3] example warning:
 [   27.008664] bond1: (slave nlmon0): The slave device specified does not support setting the MAC address
 [   27.008692] bond1: (slave nlmon0): Error -95 calling set_mac_address
 [   32.464639] bond1 (unregistering): Released all slaves
 [   32.464685] ------------[ cut here ]------------
 [   32.464686] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2004 at net/core/dev.c:10829 unregister_netdevice_many+0x72a/0x780
 [   32.464694] Modules linked in: br_netfilter bridge bonding virtio_net
 [   32.464699] CPU: 1 PID: 2004 Comm: ip Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.18.0-rc3+ #47
 [   32.464703] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
 [   32.464704] RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many+0x72a/0x780
 [   32.464707] Code: 99 fd ff ff ba 90 1a 00 00 48 c7 c6 f4 02 66 96 48 c7 c7 20 4d 35 96 c6 05 fa c7 2b 02 01 e8 be 6f 4a 00 0f 0b e9 73 fd ff ff <0f> 0b e9 5f fd ff ff 80 3d e3 c7 2b 02 00 0f 85 3b fd ff ff ba 59
 [   32.464710] RSP: 0018:ffffa006422d7820 EFLAGS: 00010206
 [   32.464712] RAX: ffff8f6e077140a0 RBX: ffffa006422d7888 RCX: 0000000000000000
 [   32.464714] RDX: ffff8f6e12edbe58 RSI: 0000000000000296 RDI: ffffffff96d4a520
 [   32.464716] RBP: ffff8f6e07714000 R08: ffffffff96d63600 R09: ffffa006422d7728
 [   32.464717] R10: 0000000000000ec0 R11: ffffffff9698c988 R12: ffff8f6e12edb140
 [   32.464719] R13: dead000000000122 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffff8f6e12edb140
 [   32.464723] FS:  00007f297c2f1740(0000) GS:ffff8f6e5d900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 [   32.464725] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 [   32.464726] CR2: 00007f297bf1c800 CR3: 00000000115e8000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
 [   32.464730] Call Trace:
 [   32.464763]  <TASK>
 [   32.464767]  rtnl_dellink+0x13e/0x380
 [   32.464776]  ? cred_has_capability.isra.0+0x68/0x100
 [   32.464780]  ? __rtnl_unlock+0x33/0x60
 [   32.464783]  ? bpf_lsm_capset+0x10/0x10
 [   32.464786]  ? security_capable+0x36/0x50
 [   32.464790]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x14e/0x3b0
 [   32.464792]  ? _copy_to_iter+0xb1/0x790
 [   32.464796]  ? post_alloc_hook+0xa0/0x160
 [   32.464799]  ? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x110/0x110
 [   32.464802]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0xf0
 [   32.464806]  netlink_unicast+0x216/0x340
 [   32.464809]  netlink_sendmsg+0x23f/0x480
 [   32.464812]  sock_sendmsg+0x5e/0x60
 [   32.464815]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x22c/0x270
 [   32.464818]  ? import_iovec+0x17/0x20
 [   32.464821]  ? sendmsg_copy_msghdr+0x59/0x90
 [   32.464823]  ? do_set_pte+0xa0/0xe0
 [   32.464828]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x81/0xc0
 [   32.464832]  ? mod_objcg_state+0xc6/0x300
 [   32.464835]  ? refill_obj_stock+0xa9/0x160
 [   32.464838]  ? memcg_slab_free_hook+0x1a5/0x1f0
 [   32.464842]  __sys_sendmsg+0x49/0x80
 [   32.464847]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
 [   32.464851]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
 [   32.464865] RIP: 0033:0x7f297bf2e5e7
 [   32.464868] Code: 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bb 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 89 74 24 10
 [   32.464869] RSP: 002b:00007ffd96c824c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
 [   32.464872] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f297bf2e5e7
 [   32.464874] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffd96c82540 RDI: 0000000000000003
 [   32.464875] RBP: 00000000640f19de R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 000000000000007c
 [   32.464876] R10: 00007f297bffabe0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
 [   32.464877] R13: 00007ffd96c82d20 R14: 00007ffd96c82610 R15: 000055bfe38a7020
 [   32.464881]  </TASK>
 [   32.464882] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53103 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.2 with commit 7d5cd2ce5292b45e555de776cb9e72975a07460d and fixed in 5.15.104 with commit 93c8cbeb1b2b8ff670b3dfd01b3abd843995c80f
	Issue introduced in 4.2 with commit 7d5cd2ce5292b45e555de776cb9e72975a07460d and fixed in 6.1.21 with commit ecb1b5135bd3f232d5335b3935e2c2ac11bfa02f
	Issue introduced in 4.2 with commit 7d5cd2ce5292b45e555de776cb9e72975a07460d and fixed in 6.2.8 with commit 0276813b8ab08d9bf5ca4159f301d0829ecf13fc
	Issue introduced in 4.2 with commit 7d5cd2ce5292b45e555de776cb9e72975a07460d and fixed in 6.3 with commit e667d469098671261d558be0cd93dca4d285ce1e

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53103
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93c8cbeb1b2b8ff670b3dfd01b3abd843995c80f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecb1b5135bd3f232d5335b3935e2c2ac11bfa02f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0276813b8ab08d9bf5ca4159f301d0829ecf13fc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e667d469098671261d558be0cd93dca4d285ce1e