linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53632: net/mlx5e: Take RTNL lock when needed before calling xdp_set

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Message-ID: <2025100713-CVE-2023-53632-d2de@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2025 17:19:37 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53632: net/mlx5e: Take RTNL lock when needed before calling xdp_set_features()

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

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

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

net/mlx5e: Take RTNL lock when needed before calling xdp_set_features()

Hold RTNL lock when calling xdp_set_features() with a registered netdev,
as the call triggers the netdev notifiers. This could happen when
switching from uplink rep to nic profile for example.

This resolves the following call trace:

RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (1953)
WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 112670 at net/core/dev.c:1953 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x7c/0x80
Modules linked in: sch_mqprio sch_mqprio_lib act_tunnel_key act_mirred act_skbedit cls_matchall nfnetlink_cttimeout act_gact cls_flower sch_ingress bonding ib_umad ip_gre rdma_ucm mlx5_vfio_pci ipip tunnel4 ip6_gre gre mlx5_ib vfio_pci vfio_pci_core vfio_iommu_type1 ib_uverbs vfio mlx5_core ib_ipoib geneve nf_tables ip6_tunnel tunnel6 iptable_raw openvswitch nsh rpcrdma ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss oid_registry overlay zram zsmalloc fuse [last unloaded: ib_uverbs]
CPU: 6 PID: 112670 Comm: devlink Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7_for_upstream_min_debug_2023_06_28_17_02 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x7c/0x80
Code: 90 ff 80 3d 2d 6b f7 00 00 75 c5 ba a1 07 00 00 48 c7 c6 e4 ce 0b 82 48 c7 c7 c8 f4 04 82 c6 05 11 6b f7 00 01 e8 a4 7c 8e ff <0f> 0b eb a2 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 54 48 83 e4 f0 48 83 ec
RSP: 0018:ffff8882a21c3948 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff82e6f880 RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: ffff88885f99b5c8 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff88885f99b5c0
RBP: 0000000000000028 R08: ffff88887ffabaa8 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: ffff88887fecbac0 R11: ffff88887ff7bac0 R12: ffff8882a21c3968
R13: ffff88811c018940 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8881274401a0
FS:  00007fe141c81800(0000) GS:ffff88885f980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f787c28b948 CR3: 000000014bcf3005 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __warn+0x79/0x120
 ? call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x7c/0x80
 ? report_bug+0x17c/0x190
 ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x60
 ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
 ? call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x7c/0x80
 ? call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x7c/0x80
 call_netdevice_notifiers+0x2e/0x50
 mlx5e_set_xdp_feature+0x21/0x50 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_nic_init+0xf1/0x1a0 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_netdev_init_profile+0x76/0x110 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_netdev_attach_profile+0x1f/0x90 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_netdev_change_profile+0x92/0x160 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_netdev_attach_nic_profile+0x1b/0x30 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0xaa/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
 __esw_offloads_unload_rep+0x52/0x60 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_esw_offloads_rep_unload+0x52/0x70 [mlx5_core]
 esw_offloads_unload_rep+0x34/0x70 [mlx5_core]
 esw_offloads_disable+0x2b/0x90 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_eswitch_disable_locked+0x1b9/0x210 [mlx5_core]
 mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0xf5/0x630 [mlx5_core]
 ? devlink_get_from_attrs_lock+0x9e/0x110
 devlink_nl_cmd_eswitch_set_doit+0x60/0xe0
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xc2/0x110
 genl_rcv_msg+0x17d/0x2b0
 ? devlink_get_from_attrs_lock+0x110/0x110
 ? devlink_nl_cmd_eswitch_get_doit+0x290/0x290
 ? devlink_pernet_pre_exit+0xf0/0xf0
 ? genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x110/0x110
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100
 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
 netlink_unicast+0x1f6/0x2c0
 netlink_sendmsg+0x232/0x4a0
 sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60
 ? _copy_from_user+0x2a/0x60
 __sys_sendto+0x110/0x160
 ? __count_memcg_events+0x48/0x90
 ? handle_mm_fault+0x161/0x260
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x278/0x6e0
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7fe141b1340a
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 7e c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 48 83 ec 30 44 89
RSP: 002b:00007fff61d03de8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000afab00 RCX: 00007fe141b1340a
RDX: 0000000000000038 RSI: 0000000000afab00 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000afa910 R08: 00007fe141d80200 R09: 000000000000000c
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
 </TASK>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53632 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit 4d5ab0ad964df178beba031b89429a601893ff61 and fixed in 6.4.11 with commit 16b7775ae4389dd1e885732ea610321c64284e5f
	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit 4d5ab0ad964df178beba031b89429a601893ff61 and fixed in 6.5 with commit 72cc654970658e88a1cdea08f06b11c218efa4da

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-2023-53632
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_main.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/16b7775ae4389dd1e885732ea610321c64284e5f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72cc654970658e88a1cdea08f06b11c218efa4da