linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53393: RDMA/mlx5: Fix mlx5_ib_get_hw

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Message-ID: <2025091858-CVE-2023-53393-5e45@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:34:38 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53393: RDMA/mlx5: Fix mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats when used for device

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

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

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

RDMA/mlx5: Fix mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats when used for device

Currently, when mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats() is used for device (port_num = 0),
there is a special handling in order to use the correct counters, but,
port_num is being passed down the stack without any change.  Also, some
functions assume that port_num >=1. As a result, the following oops can
occur.

 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff89510294f1a8
 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
 CPU: 8 PID: 1382 Comm: devlink Tainted: G W          6.1.0-rc4_for_upstream_base_2022_11_10_16_12 #1
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock+0xc/0x20
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  mlx5_ib_get_native_port_mdev+0x73/0xe0 [mlx5_ib]
  do_get_hw_stats.constprop.0+0x109/0x160 [mlx5_ib]
  mlx5_ib_get_hw_stats+0xad/0x180 [mlx5_ib]
  ib_setup_device_attrs+0xf0/0x290 [ib_core]
  ib_register_device+0x3bb/0x510 [ib_core]
  ? atomic_notifier_chain_register+0x67/0x80
  __mlx5_ib_add+0x2b/0x80 [mlx5_ib]
  mlx5r_probe+0xb8/0x150 [mlx5_ib]
  ? auxiliary_match_id+0x6a/0x90
  auxiliary_bus_probe+0x3c/0x70
  ? driver_sysfs_add+0x6b/0x90
  really_probe+0xcd/0x380
  __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x170
  driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
  __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100
  ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x60/0x60
  ? driver_allows_async_probing+0x60/0x60
  bus_for_each_drv+0x7b/0xc0
  __device_attach+0xbc/0x200
  bus_probe_device+0x87/0xa0
  device_add+0x404/0x940
  ? dev_set_name+0x53/0x70
  __auxiliary_device_add+0x43/0x60
  add_adev+0x99/0xe0 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5_attach_device+0xc8/0x120 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5_load_one_devl_locked+0xb2/0xe0 [mlx5_core]
  devlink_reload+0x133/0x250
  devlink_nl_cmd_reload+0x480/0x570
  ? devlink_nl_pre_doit+0x44/0x2b0
  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xc2/0x110
  genl_rcv_msg+0x180/0x2b0
  ? devlink_nl_cmd_region_read_dumpit+0x540/0x540
  ? devlink_reload+0x250/0x250
  ? devlink_put+0x50/0x50
  ? genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x110/0x110
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100
  genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
  netlink_unicast+0x1f6/0x2c0
  netlink_sendmsg+0x237/0x490
  sock_sendmsg+0x33/0x40
  __sys_sendto+0x103/0x160
  ? handle_mm_fault+0x10e/0x290
  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x1c0/0x5f0
  __x64_sys_sendto+0x25/0x30
  do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Fix it by setting port_num to 1 in order to get device status and remove
unused variable.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53393 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit aac4492ef23a176b6f1a41aadb99177eceb1fc06 and fixed in 5.15.87 with commit 8d89870d63758363b07ace5c2df82d6bf865f78b
	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit aac4492ef23a176b6f1a41aadb99177eceb1fc06 and fixed in 6.0.19 with commit 9a97da4674b890b4c28f5f12beba8c33a9cd2f49
	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit aac4492ef23a176b6f1a41aadb99177eceb1fc06 and fixed in 6.1.5 with commit e597b003c736217b0c99ccf1b240c25009105238
	Issue introduced in 4.16 with commit aac4492ef23a176b6f1a41aadb99177eceb1fc06 and fixed in 6.2 with commit 38b50aa44495d5eb4218f0b82fc2da76505cec53

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-2023-53393
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/infiniband/hw/mlx5/counters.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/8d89870d63758363b07ace5c2df82d6bf865f78b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a97da4674b890b4c28f5f12beba8c33a9cd2f49
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e597b003c736217b0c99ccf1b240c25009105238
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38b50aa44495d5eb4218f0b82fc2da76505cec53