linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53312: net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport

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Message-ID: <2025091642-CVE-2023-53312-a16b@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:11:57 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53312: net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset()

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

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

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

net: fix net_dev_start_xmit trace event vs skb_transport_offset()

After blamed commit, we must be more careful about using
skb_transport_offset(), as reminded us by syzbot:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted 6.1.30-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet
RIP: 0010:skb_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:2868 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_transport_offset include/linux/skbuff.h:2977 [inline]
RIP: 0010:perf_trace_net_dev_start_xmit+0x89a/0xce0 include/trace/events/net.h:14
Code: 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 3b 84 24 c0 00 00 00 0f 85 4e 04 00 00 48 8d 65 d8 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc e8 56 22 01 fd <0f> 0b e9 f6 fc ff ff 89 f9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 86 f9 ff
RSP: 0018:ffffc900002bf700 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8485d8ca RBX: 000000000000ffff RCX: ffff888100914280
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ffff RDI: 000000000000ffff
RBP: ffffc900002bf818 R08: ffffffff8485d5b6 R09: fffffbfff0f8fb5e
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dffffc0000000001 R12: 1ffff110217d8f67
R13: ffff88810bec7b3a R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f6a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f96cf6d52f0 CR3: 000000012224c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
[<ffffffff84715e35>] trace_net_dev_start_xmit include/trace/events/net.h:14 [inline]
[<ffffffff84715e35>] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3643 [inline]
[<ffffffff84715e35>] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x705/0x980 net/core/dev.c:3660
[<ffffffff8471a232>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x16b2/0x3370 net/core/dev.c:4324
[<ffffffff85416493>] dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3030 [inline]
[<ffffffff85416493>] batadv_send_skb_packet+0x3f3/0x680 net/batman-adv/send.c:108
[<ffffffff85416744>] batadv_send_broadcast_skb+0x24/0x30 net/batman-adv/send.c:127
[<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_ogm_send_to_if net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:393 [inline]
[<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_ogm_emit net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:421 [inline]
[<ffffffff853bc52a>] batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x69a/0x840 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1701
[<ffffffff8151023c>] process_one_work+0x8ac/0x1170 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
[<ffffffff81511938>] worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2436

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53312 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6 and fixed in 6.1.39 with commit ced61418f46993d571385812bafed3a7d4ab6918
	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6 and fixed in 6.4.4 with commit 58f9e88eb247263c74383b4ee8858abac15cdbe0
	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 66e4c8d950083df8e12981babca788e1635c92b6 and fixed in 6.5 with commit f88fcb1d7d961b4b402d675109726f94db87571c

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-2023-53312
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:
	include/trace/events/net.h


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/ced61418f46993d571385812bafed3a7d4ab6918
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58f9e88eb247263c74383b4ee8858abac15cdbe0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f88fcb1d7d961b4b402d675109726f94db87571c