linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53581: net/mlx5e: Check for NOT

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <2025100424-CVE-2023-53581-80fa@gregkh>
Date: Sat,  4 Oct 2025 17:51:35 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53581: net/mlx5e: Check for NOT_READY flag state after locking

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

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

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

net/mlx5e: Check for NOT_READY flag state after locking

Currently the check for NOT_READY flag is performed before obtaining the
necessary lock. This opens a possibility for race condition when the flow
is concurrently removed from unready_flows list by the workqueue task,
which causes a double-removal from the list and a crash[0]. Fix the issue
by moving the flag check inside the section protected by
uplink_priv->unready_flows_lock mutex.

[0]:
[44376.389654] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000108: 0000 [#1] SMP
[44376.391665] CPU: 7 PID: 59123 Comm: tc Not tainted 6.4.0-rc4+ #1
[44376.392984] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[44376.395342] RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow+0xb3/0x340 [mlx5_core]
[44376.396857] Code: 00 48 8b b8 68 ce 02 00 e8 8a 4d 02 00 4c 8d a8 a8 01 00 00 4c 89 ef e8 8b 79 88 e1 48 8b 83 98 06 00 00 48 8b 93 90 06 00 00 <48> 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48 89 83 90 06
[44376.399167] RSP: 0018:ffff88812cc97570 EFLAGS: 00010246
[44376.399680] RAX: dead000000000122 RBX: ffff8881088e3800 RCX: ffff8881881bac00
[44376.400337] RDX: dead000000000100 RSI: ffff88812cc97500 RDI: ffff8881242f71b0
[44376.401001] RBP: ffff88811cbb0940 R08: 0000000000000400 R09: 0000000000000001
[44376.401663] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88812c944000
[44376.402342] R13: ffff8881242f71a8 R14: ffff8881222b4000 R15: 0000000000000000
[44376.402999] FS:  00007f0451104800(0000) GS:ffff88852cb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[44376.403787] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[44376.404343] CR2: 0000000000489108 CR3: 0000000123a79003 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
[44376.405004] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[44376.405665] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[44376.406339] Call Trace:
[44376.406651]  <TASK>
[44376.406939]  ? die_addr+0x33/0x90
[44376.407311]  ? exc_general_protection+0x192/0x390
[44376.407795]  ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30
[44376.408292]  ? mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow+0xb3/0x340 [mlx5_core]
[44376.408876]  __mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peer_flow+0xbc/0xe0 [mlx5_core]
[44376.409482]  mlx5e_tc_del_flow+0x42/0x210 [mlx5_core]
[44376.410055]  mlx5e_flow_put+0x25/0x50 [mlx5_core]
[44376.410529]  mlx5e_delete_flower+0x24b/0x350 [mlx5_core]
[44376.411043]  tc_setup_cb_reoffload+0x22/0x80
[44376.411462]  fl_reoffload+0x261/0x2f0 [cls_flower]
[44376.411907]  ? mlx5e_rep_indr_setup_ft_cb+0x160/0x160 [mlx5_core]
[44376.412481]  ? mlx5e_rep_indr_setup_ft_cb+0x160/0x160 [mlx5_core]
[44376.413044]  tcf_block_playback_offloads+0x76/0x170
[44376.413497]  tcf_block_unbind+0x7b/0xd0
[44376.413881]  tcf_block_setup+0x17d/0x1c0
[44376.414269]  tcf_block_offload_cmd.isra.0+0xf1/0x130
[44376.414725]  tcf_block_offload_unbind+0x43/0x70
[44376.415153]  __tcf_block_put+0x82/0x150
[44376.415532]  ingress_destroy+0x22/0x30 [sch_ingress]
[44376.415986]  qdisc_destroy+0x3b/0xd0
[44376.416343]  qdisc_graft+0x4d0/0x620
[44376.416706]  tc_get_qdisc+0x1c9/0x3b0
[44376.417074]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x29c/0x390
[44376.419978]  ? rep_movs_alternative+0x3a/0xa0
[44376.420399]  ? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x120/0x120
[44376.420813]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100
[44376.421192]  netlink_unicast+0x1f6/0x2c0
[44376.421573]  netlink_sendmsg+0x232/0x4a0
[44376.421980]  sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60
[44376.422328]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x1d0/0x1e0
[44376.422709]  ? copy_msghdr_from_user+0x6d/0xa0
[44376.423127]  ___sys_sendmsg+0x80/0xc0
[44376.423495]  ? ___sys_recvmsg+0x8b/0xc0
[44376.423869]  __sys_sendmsg+0x51/0x90
[44376.424226]  do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
[44376.424587]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
[44376.425046] RIP: 0033:0x7f045134f887
[44376.425403] Code: 0a 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b9 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 89 74 24 10
[44376.426914] RSP: 002b:00007ffd63a82b98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
[44376.427592] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000006481955f RCX: 00007f045134f887
[44376.428195] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffd63a82c00 RDI: 0000000000000003
[44376.428796] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[44376.429404] R10: 00007f0451208708 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
[44376.430039] R13: 0000000000409980 R14: 000000000047e538 R15: 0000000000485400
[44376.430644]  </TASK>
[44376.430907] Modules linked in: mlx5_ib mlx5_core act_mirred act_tunnel_key cls_flower vxlan dummy sch_ingress openvswitch nsh rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm ib_uverbs ib_core xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_g
ss_krb5 auth_rpcgss oid_registry overlay zram zsmalloc fuse [last unloaded: mlx5_core]
[44376.433936] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[44376.434373] RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow+0xb3/0x340 [mlx5_core]
[44376.434951] Code: 00 48 8b b8 68 ce 02 00 e8 8a 4d 02 00 4c 8d a8 a8 01 00 00 4c 89 ef e8 8b 79 88 e1 48 8b 83 98 06 00 00 48 8b 93 90 06 00 00 <48> 89 42 08 48 89 10 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 48 89 83 90 06
[44376.436452] RSP: 0018:ffff88812cc97570 EFLAGS: 00010246
[44376.436924] RAX: dead000000000122 RBX: ffff8881088e3800 RCX: ffff8881881bac00
[44376.437530] RDX: dead000000000100 RSI: ffff88812cc97500 RDI: ffff8881242f71b0
[44376.438179] RBP: ffff88811cbb0940 R08: 0000000000000400 R09: 0000000000000001
[44376.438786] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88812c944000
[44376.439393] R13: ffff8881242f71a8 R14: ffff8881222b4000 R15: 0000000000000000
[44376.439998] FS:  00007f0451104800(0000) GS:ffff88852cb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[44376.440714] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[44376.441225] CR2: 0000000000489108 CR3: 0000000123a79003 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
[44376.441843] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[44376.442471] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53581 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit ad86755b18d5edf1956f6d25c844f27289216877 and fixed in 5.10.188 with commit 30c281a77fb1b2d362030ea243dd663201d62a21
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit ad86755b18d5edf1956f6d25c844f27289216877 and fixed in 5.15.121 with commit 82ac62d76a000871004f534ad294e763e966d3b0
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit ad86755b18d5edf1956f6d25c844f27289216877 and fixed in 6.1.40 with commit e962fd5933ebc767ce2a1cf7b7c85035b5a5d04c
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit ad86755b18d5edf1956f6d25c844f27289216877 and fixed in 6.4.5 with commit f7ceedd1d124217a67ed1a67bbd7a7b1288705e3
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit ad86755b18d5edf1956f6d25c844f27289216877 and fixed in 6.5 with commit 65e64640e97c0f223e77f9ea69b5a46186b93470

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-2023-53581
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


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/30c281a77fb1b2d362030ea243dd663201d62a21
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82ac62d76a000871004f534ad294e763e966d3b0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e962fd5933ebc767ce2a1cf7b7c85035b5a5d04c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7ceedd1d124217a67ed1a67bbd7a7b1288705e3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65e64640e97c0f223e77f9ea69b5a46186b93470