linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53347: net/mlx5: Handle pairing of E-switch via uplink un/load APIs

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Message-ID: <2025091719-CVE-2023-53347-ed20@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:56:46 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53347: net/mlx5: Handle pairing of E-switch via uplink un/load APIs

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

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

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

net/mlx5: Handle pairing of E-switch via uplink un/load APIs

In case user switch a device from switchdev mode to legacy mode, mlx5
first unpair the E-switch and afterwards unload the uplink vport.
>>From the other hand, in case user remove or reload a device, mlx5
first unload the uplink vport and afterwards unpair the E-switch.

The latter is causing a bug[1], hence, handle pairing of E-switch as
part of uplink un/load APIs.

[1]
In case VF_LAG is used, every tc fdb flow is duplicated to the peer
esw. However, the original esw keeps a pointer to this duplicated
flow, not the peer esw.
e.g.: if user create tc fdb flow over esw0, the flow is duplicated
over esw1, in FW/HW, but in SW, esw0 keeps a pointer to the duplicated
flow.
During module unload while a peer tc fdb flow is still offloaded, in
case the first device to be removed is the peer device (esw1 in the
example above), the peer net-dev is destroyed, and so the mlx5e_priv
is memset to 0.
Afterwards, the peer device is trying to unpair himself from the
original device (esw0 in the example above). Unpair API invoke the
original device to clear peer flow from its eswitch (esw0), but the
peer flow, which is stored over the original eswitch (esw0), is
trying to use the peer mlx5e_priv, which is memset to 0 and result in
bellow kernel-oops.

[  157.964081 ] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000000002ce60
[  157.964662 ] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  157.965123 ] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  157.965582 ] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  157.965866 ] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  157.967670 ] RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow+0x48/0x460 [mlx5_core]
[  157.976164 ] Call Trace:
[  157.976437 ]  <TASK>
[  157.976690 ]  __mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow+0xe6/0x100 [mlx5_core]
[  157.977230 ]  mlx5e_tc_clean_fdb_peer_flows+0x67/0x90 [mlx5_core]
[  157.977767 ]  mlx5_esw_offloads_unpair+0x2d/0x1e0 [mlx5_core]
[  157.984653 ]  mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_event+0xbf/0x130 [mlx5_core]
[  157.985212 ]  mlx5_devcom_send_event+0xa3/0xb0 [mlx5_core]
[  157.985714 ]  esw_offloads_disable+0x5a/0x110 [mlx5_core]
[  157.986209 ]  mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked+0x152/0x170 [mlx5_core]
[  157.986757 ]  mlx5_eswitch_disable+0x51/0x80 [mlx5_core]
[  157.987248 ]  mlx5_unload+0x2a/0xb0 [mlx5_core]
[  157.987678 ]  mlx5_uninit_one+0x5f/0xd0 [mlx5_core]
[  157.988127 ]  remove_one+0x64/0xe0 [mlx5_core]
[  157.988549 ]  pci_device_remove+0x31/0xa0
[  157.988933 ]  device_release_driver_internal+0x18f/0x1f0
[  157.989402 ]  driver_detach+0x3f/0x80
[  157.989754 ]  bus_remove_driver+0x70/0xf0
[  157.990129 ]  pci_unregister_driver+0x34/0x90
[  157.990537 ]  mlx5_cleanup+0xc/0x1c [mlx5_core]
[  157.990972 ]  __x64_sys_delete_module+0x15a/0x250
[  157.991398 ]  ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xea/0x110
[  157.991840 ]  do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
[  157.992198 ]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53347 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.0 with commit 04de7dda7394fa9c2b0fc9cec65661d9b4f0d04d and fixed in 6.1.31 with commit b17294e7aa8c39dbb9c3e28e2d1983c88b94b387
	Issue introduced in 5.0 with commit 04de7dda7394fa9c2b0fc9cec65661d9b4f0d04d and fixed in 6.3.5 with commit 10cbfecc0f99f579fb170feee866c9efaab7ee47
	Issue introduced in 5.0 with commit 04de7dda7394fa9c2b0fc9cec65661d9b4f0d04d and fixed in 6.4 with commit 2be5bd42a5bba1a05daedc86cf0e248210009669

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-2023-53347
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/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.h
	drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.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/b17294e7aa8c39dbb9c3e28e2d1983c88b94b387
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10cbfecc0f99f579fb170feee866c9efaab7ee47
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2be5bd42a5bba1a05daedc86cf0e248210009669