Message-ID: <2025100702-CVE-2023-53659-8f24@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2025 17:21:18 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53659: iavf: Fix out-of-bounds when setting channels on remove

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

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

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

iavf: Fix out-of-bounds when setting channels on remove

If we set channels greater during iavf_remove(), and waiting reset done
would be timeout, then returned with error but changed num_active_queues
directly, that will lead to OOB like the following logs. Because the
num_active_queues is greater than tx/rx_rings[] allocated actually.

Reproducer:

  [root@...t ~]# cat repro.sh
  #!/bin/bash

  pf_dbsf="0000:41:00.0"
  vf0_dbsf="0000:41:02.0"
  g_pids=()

  function do_set_numvf()
  {
      echo 2 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/${pf_dbsf}/sriov_numvfs
      sleep $((RANDOM%3+1))
      echo 0 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/${pf_dbsf}/sriov_numvfs
      sleep $((RANDOM%3+1))
  }

  function do_set_channel()
  {
      local nic=$(ls -1 --indicator-style=none /sys/bus/pci/devices/${vf0_dbsf}/net/)
      [ -z "$nic" ] && { sleep $((RANDOM%3)) ; return 1; }
      ifconfig $nic 192.168.18.5 netmask 255.255.255.0
      ifconfig $nic up
      ethtool -L $nic combined 1
      ethtool -L $nic combined 4
      sleep $((RANDOM%3))
  }

  function on_exit()
  {
      local pid
      for pid in "${g_pids[@]}"; do
          kill -0 "$pid" &>/dev/null && kill "$pid" &>/dev/null
      done
      g_pids=()
  }

  trap "on_exit; exit" EXIT

  while :; do do_set_numvf ; done &
  g_pids+=($!)
  while :; do do_set_channel ; done &
  g_pids+=($!)

  wait

Result:

[ 3506.152887] iavf 0000:41:02.0: Removing device
[ 3510.400799] ==================================================================
[ 3510.400820] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in iavf_free_all_tx_resources+0x156/0x160 [iavf]
[ 3510.400823] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88b6f9311008 by task repro.sh/55536
[ 3510.400823]
[ 3510.400830] CPU: 101 PID: 55536 Comm: repro.sh Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           O     --------- -t - 4.18.0 #1
[ 3510.400832] Hardware name: Powerleader PR2008AL/H12DSi-N6, BIOS 2.0 04/09/2021
[ 3510.400835] Call Trace:
[ 3510.400851]  dump_stack+0x71/0xab
[ 3510.400860]  print_address_description+0x6b/0x290
[ 3510.400865]  ? iavf_free_all_tx_resources+0x156/0x160 [iavf]
[ 3510.400868]  kasan_report+0x14a/0x2b0
[ 3510.400873]  iavf_free_all_tx_resources+0x156/0x160 [iavf]
[ 3510.400880]  iavf_remove+0x2b6/0xc70 [iavf]
[ 3510.400884]  ? iavf_free_all_rx_resources+0x160/0x160 [iavf]
[ 3510.400891]  ? wait_woken+0x1d0/0x1d0
[ 3510.400895]  ? notifier_call_chain+0xc1/0x130
[ 3510.400903]  pci_device_remove+0xa8/0x1f0
[ 3510.400910]  device_release_driver_internal+0x1c6/0x460
[ 3510.400916]  pci_stop_bus_device+0x101/0x150
[ 3510.400919]  pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0xe/0x20
[ 3510.400924]  pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0x187/0x420
[ 3510.400927]  ? pci_iov_add_virtfn+0xe10/0xe10
[ 3510.400929]  ? pci_get_subsys+0x90/0x90
[ 3510.400932]  sriov_disable+0xed/0x3e0
[ 3510.400936]  ? bus_find_device+0x12d/0x1a0
[ 3510.400953]  i40e_free_vfs+0x754/0x1210 [i40e]
[ 3510.400966]  ? i40e_reset_all_vfs+0x880/0x880 [i40e]
[ 3510.400968]  ? pci_get_device+0x7c/0x90
[ 3510.400970]  ? pci_get_subsys+0x90/0x90
[ 3510.400982]  ? pci_vfs_assigned.part.7+0x144/0x210
[ 3510.400987]  ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10
[ 3510.400996]  i40e_pci_sriov_configure+0x1fa/0x2e0 [i40e]
[ 3510.401001]  sriov_numvfs_store+0x214/0x290
[ 3510.401005]  ? sriov_totalvfs_show+0x30/0x30
[ 3510.401007]  ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10
[ 3510.401011]  ? __check_object_size+0x15a/0x350
[ 3510.401018]  kernfs_fop_write+0x280/0x3f0
[ 3510.401022]  vfs_write+0x145/0x440
[ 3510.401025]  ksys_write+0xab/0x160
[ 3510.401028]  ? __ia32_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0
[ 3510.401031]  ? fput_many+0x1a/0x120
[ 3510.401032]  ? filp_close+0xf0/0x130
[ 3510.401038]  do_syscall_64+0xa0/0x370
[ 3510.401041]  ? page_fault+0x8/0x30
[ 3510.401043]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca
[ 3510.401073] RIP: 0033:0x7f3a9bb842c0
[ 3510.401079] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d d8 cb 2c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 3d 89 24 2d 00 00 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 31 c3 48 83 ec 08 e8 fe dd 01 00 48 89 04 24
[ 3510.401080] RSP: 002b:00007ffc05f1fe18 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
[ 3510.401083] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007f3a9bb842c0
[ 3510.401085] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000002327408 RDI: 0000000000000001
[ 3510.401086] RBP: 0000000002327408 R08: 00007f3a9be53780 R09: 00007f3a9c8a4700
[ 3510.401086] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
[ 3510.401087] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f3a9be52620 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 3510.401090]
[ 3510.401093] Allocated by task 76795:
[ 3510.401098]  kasan_kmalloc+0xa6/0xd0
[ 3510.401099]  __kmalloc+0xfb/0x200
[ 3510.401104]  iavf_init_interrupt_scheme+0x26f/0x1310 [iavf]
[ 3510.401108]  iavf_watchdog_task+0x1d58/0x4050 [iavf]
[ 3510.401114]  process_one_work+0x56a/0x11f0
[ 3510.401115]  worker_thread+0x8f/0xf40
[ 3510.401117]  kthread+0x2a0/0x390
[ 3510.401119]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
[ 3510.401122]  0xffffffffffffffff
[ 3510.401123]

In timeout handling, we should keep the original num_active_queues
and reset num_req_queues to 0.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53659 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.10.82 with commit 1555d83ddbb7204ef60c58aee6ca3bbef2c5e99f and fixed in 5.10.188 with commit b92defe4e8ee86996c16417ad8c804cb4395fddd
	Issue introduced in 5.15.5 with commit 68d4274034e618b7f190dc9fbfc4f3436a7430f4 and fixed in 5.15.123 with commit 0fb37ce6c01e17839e26d03222f0b44e6a3ed2b9
	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit 4e5e6b5d9d1334d3490326b6922a2daaf56a867f and fixed in 6.1.42 with commit 6e1d8f1332076a002e6d910d255aa5903d341c56
	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit 4e5e6b5d9d1334d3490326b6922a2daaf56a867f and fixed in 6.4.7 with commit 65ecebc9ac09427b2c65f271cd5e5bd536c3fe38
	Issue introduced in 5.16 with commit 4e5e6b5d9d1334d3490326b6922a2daaf56a867f and fixed in 6.5 with commit 7c4bced3caa749ce468b0c5de711c98476b23a52

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-2023-53659
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/intel/iavf/iavf_ethtool.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/b92defe4e8ee86996c16417ad8c804cb4395fddd
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fb37ce6c01e17839e26d03222f0b44e6a3ed2b9
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e1d8f1332076a002e6d910d255aa5903d341c56
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65ecebc9ac09427b2c65f271cd5e5bd536c3fe38
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c4bced3caa749ce468b0c5de711c98476b23a52

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