linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53647: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't dereference ACPI root object handle

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Message-ID: <2025100718-CVE-2023-53647-c01f@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  7 Oct 2025 17:19:52 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53647: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't dereference ACPI root object handle

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

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

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

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't dereference ACPI root object handle

Since the commit referenced in the Fixes: tag below the VMBus client driver
is walking the ACPI namespace up from the VMBus ACPI device to the ACPI
namespace root object trying to find Hyper-V MMIO ranges.

However, if it is not able to find them it ends trying to walk resources of
the ACPI namespace root object itself.
This object has all-ones handle, which causes a NULL pointer dereference
in the ACPI code (from dereferencing this pointer with an offset).

This in turn causes an oops on boot with VMBus host implementations that do
not provide Hyper-V MMIO ranges in their VMBus ACPI device or its
ancestors.
The QEMU VMBus implementation is an example of such implementation.

I guess providing these ranges is optional, since all tested Windows
versions seem to be able to use VMBus devices without them.

Fix this by explicitly terminating the lookup at the ACPI namespace root
object.

Note that Linux guests under KVM/QEMU do not use the Hyper-V PV interface
by default - they only do so if the KVM PV interface is missing or
disabled.

Example stack trace of such oops:
[ 3.710827] ? __die+0x1f/0x60
[ 3.715030] ? page_fault_oops+0x159/0x460
[ 3.716008] ? exc_page_fault+0x73/0x170
[ 3.716959] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 3.717957] ? acpi_ns_lookup+0x7a/0x4b0
[ 3.718898] ? acpi_ns_internalize_name+0x79/0xc0
[ 3.720018] acpi_ns_get_node_unlocked+0xb5/0xe0
[ 3.721120] ? acpi_ns_check_object_type+0xfe/0x200
[ 3.722285] ? acpi_rs_convert_aml_to_resource+0x37/0x6e0
[ 3.723559] ? down_timeout+0x3a/0x60
[ 3.724455] ? acpi_ns_get_node+0x3a/0x60
[ 3.725412] acpi_ns_get_node+0x3a/0x60
[ 3.726335] acpi_ns_evaluate+0x1c3/0x2c0
[ 3.727295] acpi_ut_evaluate_object+0x64/0x1b0
[ 3.728400] acpi_rs_get_method_data+0x2b/0x70
[ 3.729476] ? vmbus_platform_driver_probe+0x1d0/0x1d0 [hv_vmbus]
[ 3.730940] ? vmbus_platform_driver_probe+0x1d0/0x1d0 [hv_vmbus]
[ 3.732411] acpi_walk_resources+0x78/0xd0
[ 3.733398] vmbus_platform_driver_probe+0x9f/0x1d0 [hv_vmbus]
[ 3.734802] platform_probe+0x3d/0x90
[ 3.735684] really_probe+0x19b/0x400
[ 3.736570] ? __device_attach_driver+0x100/0x100
[ 3.737697] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160
[ 3.738746] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
[ 3.739743] __driver_attach+0xc2/0x1b0
[ 3.740671] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0
[ 3.741601] bus_add_driver+0x10e/0x210
[ 3.742527] driver_register+0x55/0xf0
[ 3.744412] ? 0xffffffffc039a000
[ 3.745207] hv_acpi_init+0x3c/0x1000 [hv_vmbus]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53647 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.3 with commit 7f163a6fd957a85f7f66a129db1ad243a44399ee and fixed in 6.1.53 with commit 96db43aced395844a7abc9a0a5cc702513e3534a
	Issue introduced in 4.3 with commit 7f163a6fd957a85f7f66a129db1ad243a44399ee and fixed in 6.4.16 with commit 9fc162c59edc841032a3553eb2334320abab0784
	Issue introduced in 4.3 with commit 7f163a6fd957a85f7f66a129db1ad243a44399ee and fixed in 6.5.3 with commit 64f09d45e94547fbf219f36d1d02ac42742c028c
	Issue introduced in 4.3 with commit 7f163a6fd957a85f7f66a129db1ad243a44399ee and fixed in 6.6 with commit 78e04bbff849b51b56f5925b1945db2c6e128b61

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-2023-53647
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/hv/vmbus_drv.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/96db43aced395844a7abc9a0a5cc702513e3534a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fc162c59edc841032a3553eb2334320abab0784
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64f09d45e94547fbf219f36d1d02ac42742c028c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78e04bbff849b51b56f5925b1945db2c6e128b61