linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53363: PCI: Fix use-after-free in pci_bus_release_domain

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Message-ID: <2025091722-CVE-2023-53363-4ac2@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:57:02 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53363: PCI: Fix use-after-free in pci_bus_release_domain_nr()

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

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

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

PCI: Fix use-after-free in pci_bus_release_domain_nr()

Commit c14f7ccc9f5d ("PCI: Assign PCI domain IDs by ida_alloc()")
introduced a use-after-free bug in the bus removal cleanup. The issue was
found with kfence:

  [   19.293351] BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in pci_bus_release_domain_nr+0x10/0x70

  [   19.302817] Use-after-free read at 0x000000007f3b80eb (in kfence-#115):
  [   19.309677]  pci_bus_release_domain_nr+0x10/0x70
  [   19.309691]  dw_pcie_host_deinit+0x28/0x78
  [   19.309702]  tegra_pcie_deinit_controller+0x1c/0x38 [pcie_tegra194]
  [   19.309734]  tegra_pcie_dw_probe+0x648/0xb28 [pcie_tegra194]
  [   19.309752]  platform_probe+0x90/0xd8
  ...

  [   19.311457] kfence-#115: 0x00000000063a155a-0x00000000ba698da8, size=1072, cache=kmalloc-2k

  [   19.311469] allocated by task 96 on cpu 10 at 19.279323s:
  [   19.311562]  __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x260/0x278
  [   19.311571]  kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x30
  [   19.311580]  pci_alloc_bus+0x24/0xa0
  [   19.311590]  pci_register_host_bridge+0x48/0x4b8
  [   19.311601]  pci_scan_root_bus_bridge+0xc0/0xe8
  [   19.311613]  pci_host_probe+0x18/0xc0
  [   19.311623]  dw_pcie_host_init+0x2c0/0x568
  [   19.311630]  tegra_pcie_dw_probe+0x610/0xb28 [pcie_tegra194]
  [   19.311647]  platform_probe+0x90/0xd8
  ...

  [   19.311782] freed by task 96 on cpu 10 at 19.285833s:
  [   19.311799]  release_pcibus_dev+0x30/0x40
  [   19.311808]  device_release+0x30/0x90
  [   19.311814]  kobject_put+0xa8/0x120
  [   19.311832]  device_unregister+0x20/0x30
  [   19.311839]  pci_remove_bus+0x78/0x88
  [   19.311850]  pci_remove_root_bus+0x5c/0x98
  [   19.311860]  dw_pcie_host_deinit+0x28/0x78
  [   19.311866]  tegra_pcie_deinit_controller+0x1c/0x38 [pcie_tegra194]
  [   19.311883]  tegra_pcie_dw_probe+0x648/0xb28 [pcie_tegra194]
  [   19.311900]  platform_probe+0x90/0xd8
  ...

  [   19.313579] CPU: 10 PID: 96 Comm: kworker/u24:2 Not tainted 6.2.0 #4
  [   19.320171] Hardware name:  /, BIOS 1.0-d7fb19b 08/10/2022
  [   19.325852] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func

The stack trace is a bit misleading as dw_pcie_host_deinit() doesn't
directly call pci_bus_release_domain_nr(). The issue turns out to be in
pci_remove_root_bus() which first calls pci_remove_bus() which frees the
struct pci_bus when its struct device is released. Then
pci_bus_release_domain_nr() is called and accesses the freed struct
pci_bus. Reordering these fixes the issue.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53363 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit c14f7ccc9f5dcf9d06ddeec706f85405b2c80600 and fixed in 6.2.12 with commit 07a75c0050e59c50f038cc5f4e2a3258c8f8c9d0
	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit c14f7ccc9f5dcf9d06ddeec706f85405b2c80600 and fixed in 6.3 with commit 30ba2d09edb5ea857a1473ae3d820911347ada62

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-2023-53363
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/pci/remove.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/52b0343c7d628f37b38e3279ba585526b850ad3b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad367516b1c09317111255ecfbf5e42c33e31918
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbf45385e3419b8698b5e0a434847072375cfec2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07a75c0050e59c50f038cc5f4e2a3258c8f8c9d0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30ba2d09edb5ea857a1473ae3d820911347ada62