linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54155: net: core: remove unnecessary frame_sz check in bpf_xdp_adjust

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Message-ID: <2025122427-CVE-2023-54155-e238@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:07:52 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54155: net: core: remove unnecessary frame_sz check in bpf_xdp_adjust_tail()

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

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

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

net: core: remove unnecessary frame_sz check in bpf_xdp_adjust_tail()

Syzkaller reported the following issue:
=======================================
Too BIG xdp->frame_sz = 131072
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5020 at net/core/filter.c:4121
  ____bpf_xdp_adjust_tail net/core/filter.c:4121 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5020 at net/core/filter.c:4121
  bpf_xdp_adjust_tail+0x466/0xa10 net/core/filter.c:4103
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 bpf_prog_4add87e5301a4105+0x1a/0x1c
 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:600 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run_xdp include/linux/filter.h:775 [inline]
 bpf_prog_run_generic_xdp+0x57e/0x11e0 net/core/dev.c:4721
 netif_receive_generic_xdp net/core/dev.c:4807 [inline]
 do_xdp_generic+0x35c/0x770 net/core/dev.c:4866
 tun_get_user+0x2340/0x3ca0 drivers/net/tun.c:1919
 tun_chr_write_iter+0xe8/0x210 drivers/net/tun.c:2043
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:1871 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x650/0xe40 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x12f/0x250 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x38/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

xdp->frame_sz > PAGE_SIZE check was introduced in commit c8741e2bfe87
("xdp: Allow bpf_xdp_adjust_tail() to grow packet size"). But Jesper
Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com> noted that after introducing the
xdp_init_buff() which all XDP driver use - it's safe to remove this
check. The original intend was to catch cases where XDP drivers have
not been updated to use xdp.frame_sz, but that is not longer a concern
(since xdp_init_buff).

Running the initial syzkaller repro it was discovered that the
contiguous physical memory allocation is used for both xdp paths in
tun_get_user(), e.g. tun_build_skb() and tun_alloc_skb(). It was also
stated by Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com> that XDP can
work on higher order pages, as long as this is contiguous physical
memory (e.g. a page).

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54155 to this issue.

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

	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 43b5169d8355ccf26d726fbc75f083b2429113e4 and fixed in 5.15.127 with commit a09c258cfa77d3ba0a7acc555c73eb6b005c4bd8
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 43b5169d8355ccf26d726fbc75f083b2429113e4 and fixed in 6.1.46 with commit 20acffcdc2b74fb7dcc4e299f7aca173df89d911
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 43b5169d8355ccf26d726fbc75f083b2429113e4 and fixed in 6.4.11 with commit d9252d67ed2f921c230bba449ee051b5c32e4841
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 43b5169d8355ccf26d726fbc75f083b2429113e4 and fixed in 6.5 with commit d14eea09edf427fa36bd446f4a3271f99164202f

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-2023-54155
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:
	net/core/filter.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/a09c258cfa77d3ba0a7acc555c73eb6b005c4bd8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20acffcdc2b74fb7dcc4e299f7aca173df89d911
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9252d67ed2f921c230bba449ee051b5c32e4841
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d14eea09edf427fa36bd446f4a3271f99164202f