linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54037: ice: prevent NULL pointer deref during reload

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Message-ID: <2025122439-CVE-2023-54037-0d5e@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:57:21 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54037: ice: prevent NULL pointer deref during reload

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

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

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

ice: prevent NULL pointer deref during reload

Calling ethtool during reload can lead to call trace, because VSI isn't
configured for some time, but netdev is alive.

To fix it add rtnl lock for VSI deconfig and config. Set ::num_q_vectors
to 0 after freeing and add a check for ::tx/rx_rings in ring related
ethtool ops.

Add proper unroll of filters in ice_start_eth().

Reproduction:
$watch -n 0.1 -d 'ethtool -g enp24s0f0np0'
$devlink dev reload pci/0000:18:00.0 action driver_reinit

Call trace before fix:
[66303.926205] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[66303.926259] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[66303.926286] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[66303.926311] PGD 0 P4D 0
[66303.926332] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[66303.926358] CPU: 4 PID: 933821 Comm: ethtool Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE      6.4.0-rc5+ #1
[66303.926400] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WFT/S2600WFT, BIOS SE5C620.86B.00.01.0014.070920180847 07/09/2018
[66303.926446] RIP: 0010:ice_get_ringparam+0x22/0x50 [ice]
[66303.926649] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 87 c0 09 00 00 c7 46 04 e0 1f 00 00 c7 46 10 e0 1f 00 00 48 8b 50 20 <48> 8b 12 0f b7 52 3a 89 56 14 48 8b 40 28 48 8b 00 0f b7 40 58 48
[66303.926722] RSP: 0018:ffffad40472f39c8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[66303.926749] RAX: ffff98a8ada05828 RBX: ffff98a8c46dd060 RCX: ffffad40472f3b48
[66303.926781] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff98a8c46dd068 RDI: ffff98a8b23c4000
[66303.926811] RBP: ffffad40472f3b48 R08: 00000000000337b0 R09: 0000000000000000
[66303.926843] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffff98a8b23c4000
[66303.926874] R13: ffff98a8c46dd060 R14: 000000000000000f R15: ffffad40472f3a50
[66303.926906] FS:  00007f6397966740(0000) GS:ffff98b390900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[66303.926941] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[66303.926967] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000011ac20002 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[66303.926999] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[66303.927029] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[66303.927060] PKRU: 55555554
[66303.927075] Call Trace:
[66303.927094]  <TASK>
[66303.927111]  ? __die+0x23/0x70
[66303.927140]  ? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4e0
[66303.927176]  ? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x180
[66303.927209]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
[66303.927244]  ? ice_get_ringparam+0x22/0x50 [ice]
[66303.927433]  rings_prepare_data+0x62/0x80
[66303.927469]  ethnl_default_doit+0xe2/0x350
[66303.927501]  genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0xe3/0x140
[66303.927538]  genl_rcv_msg+0x1b1/0x2c0
[66303.927561]  ? __pfx_ethnl_default_doit+0x10/0x10
[66303.927590]  ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
[66303.927615]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x58/0x110
[66303.927644]  genl_rcv+0x28/0x40
[66303.927665]  netlink_unicast+0x19e/0x290
[66303.927691]  netlink_sendmsg+0x254/0x4d0
[66303.927717]  sock_sendmsg+0x93/0xa0
[66303.927743]  __sys_sendto+0x126/0x170
[66303.927780]  __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
[66303.928593]  do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x90
[66303.929370]  ? __count_memcg_events+0x60/0xa0
[66303.930146]  ? count_memcg_events.constprop.0+0x1a/0x30
[66303.930920]  ? handle_mm_fault+0x9e/0x350
[66303.931688]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x258/0x740
[66303.932452]  ? exc_page_fault+0x7f/0x180
[66303.933193]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54037 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit 5b246e533d0177775c64b40a2af1e62aff5d279b and fixed in 6.4.7 with commit ca03b327224ed6be2d07f42ee6ee1cdd586cfd5b
	Issue introduced in 6.3 with commit 5b246e533d0177775c64b40a2af1e62aff5d279b and fixed in 6.5 with commit b3e7b3a6ee92ab927f750a6b19615ce88ece808f

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-2023-54037
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/ice/ice_base.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_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/ca03b327224ed6be2d07f42ee6ee1cdd586cfd5b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3e7b3a6ee92ab927f750a6b19615ce88ece808f