linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53595: octeontx2-pf: mcs: Fix NULL pointer dereferences

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Message-ID: <2025100428-CVE-2023-53595-91fb@gregkh>
Date: Sat,  4 Oct 2025 17:51:49 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53595: octeontx2-pf: mcs: Fix NULL pointer dereferences

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

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

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

octeontx2-pf: mcs: Fix NULL pointer dereferences

When system is rebooted after creating macsec interface
below NULL pointer dereference crashes occurred. This
patch fixes those crashes by using correct order of teardown

[ 3324.406942] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 3324.415726] Mem abort info:
[ 3324.418510]   ESR = 0x96000006
[ 3324.421557]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 3324.426865]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 3324.429913]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 3324.433047] Data abort info:
[ 3324.435921]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
[ 3324.439748]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
....
[ 3324.575915] Call trace:
[ 3324.578353]  cn10k_mdo_del_secy+0x24/0x180
[ 3324.582440]  macsec_common_dellink+0xec/0x120
[ 3324.586788]  macsec_notify+0x17c/0x1c0
[ 3324.590529]  raw_notifier_call_chain+0x50/0x70
[ 3324.594965]  call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x34/0x7c
[ 3324.599921]  rollback_registered_many+0x354/0x5bc
[ 3324.604616]  unregister_netdevice_queue+0x88/0x10c
[ 3324.609399]  unregister_netdev+0x20/0x30
[ 3324.613313]  otx2_remove+0x8c/0x310
[ 3324.616794]  pci_device_shutdown+0x30/0x70
[ 3324.620882]  device_shutdown+0x11c/0x204

[  966.664930] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[  966.673712] Mem abort info:
[  966.676497]   ESR = 0x96000006
[  966.679543]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[  966.684848]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[  966.687895]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[  966.691028] Data abort info:
[  966.693900]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
[  966.697729]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
[  966.833467] Call trace:
[  966.835904]  cn10k_mdo_stop+0x20/0xa0
[  966.839557]  macsec_dev_stop+0xe8/0x11c
[  966.843384]  __dev_close_many+0xbc/0x140
[  966.847298]  dev_close_many+0x84/0x120
[  966.851039]  rollback_registered_many+0x114/0x5bc
[  966.855735]  unregister_netdevice_many.part.0+0x14/0xa0
[  966.860952]  unregister_netdevice_many+0x18/0x24
[  966.865560]  macsec_notify+0x1ac/0x1c0
[  966.869303]  raw_notifier_call_chain+0x50/0x70
[  966.873738]  call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x34/0x7c
[  966.878694]  rollback_registered_many+0x354/0x5bc
[  966.883390]  unregister_netdevice_queue+0x88/0x10c
[  966.888173]  unregister_netdev+0x20/0x30
[  966.892090]  otx2_remove+0x8c/0x310
[  966.895571]  pci_device_shutdown+0x30/0x70
[  966.899660]  device_shutdown+0x11c/0x204
[  966.903574]  __do_sys_reboot+0x208/0x290
[  966.907487]  __arm64_sys_reboot+0x20/0x30
[  966.911489]  el0_svc_handler+0x80/0x1c0
[  966.915316]  el0_svc+0x8/0x180
[  966.918362] Code: f9400000 f9400a64 91220014 f94b3403 (f9400060)
[  966.924448] ---[ end trace 341778e799c3d8d7 ]---

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53595 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.1 with commit c54ffc73601c0a239e55911923a6e23a2a74f143 and fixed in 6.1.29 with commit a3dcc45eca017fca82ac47dbde6f41af960657e5
	Issue introduced in 6.1 with commit c54ffc73601c0a239e55911923a6e23a2a74f143 and fixed in 6.2.16 with commit 1152c0f947b76e7731e039185cbd00fdb4389f00
	Issue introduced in 6.1 with commit c54ffc73601c0a239e55911923a6e23a2a74f143 and fixed in 6.3.3 with commit 13ff119b17e5e2916435ce01a0156c8698ad9e16
	Issue introduced in 6.1 with commit c54ffc73601c0a239e55911923a6e23a2a74f143 and fixed in 6.4 with commit 699af748c61574125d269db260dabbe20436d74e

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-2023-53595
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/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.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/a3dcc45eca017fca82ac47dbde6f41af960657e5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1152c0f947b76e7731e039185cbd00fdb4389f00
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13ff119b17e5e2916435ce01a0156c8698ad9e16
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/699af748c61574125d269db260dabbe20436d74e