linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54148: net/mlx5e: Move representor neigh cleanup to profile cleanup

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Message-ID: <2025122425-CVE-2023-54148-569b@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:07:45 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54148: net/mlx5e: Move representor neigh cleanup to profile cleanup_tx

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

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

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

net/mlx5e: Move representor neigh cleanup to profile cleanup_tx

For IP tunnel encapsulation in ECMP (Equal-Cost Multipath) mode, as
the flow is duplicated to the peer eswitch, the related neighbour
information on the peer uplink representor is created as well.

In the cited commit, eswitch devcom unpair is moved to uplink unload
API, specifically the profile->cleanup_tx. If there is a encap rule
offloaded in ECMP mode, when one eswitch does unpair (because of
unloading the driver, for instance), and the peer rule from the peer
eswitch is going to be deleted, the use-after-free error is triggered
while accessing neigh info, as it is already cleaned up in uplink's
profile->disable, which is before its profile->cleanup_tx.

To fix this issue, move the neigh cleanup to profile's cleanup_tx
callback, and after mlx5e_cleanup_uplink_rep_tx is called. The neigh
init is moved to init_tx for symmeter.

[ 2453.376299] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.379125] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888127af9008 by task modprobe/2496

[ 2453.381542] CPU: 7 PID: 2496 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G    B              6.4.0-rc7+ #15
[ 2453.383386] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 2453.384335] Call Trace:
[ 2453.384625]  <TASK>
[ 2453.384891]  dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x50
[ 2453.385285]  print_report+0xc2/0x610
[ 2453.385667]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0xb1/0x130
[ 2453.386091]  ? mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.386757]  kasan_report+0xae/0xe0
[ 2453.387123]  ? mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.387798]  mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.388465]  mlx5e_rep_encap_entry_detach+0xa6/0xe0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.389111]  mlx5e_encap_dealloc+0xa7/0x100 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.389706]  mlx5e_tc_tun_encap_dests_unset+0x61/0xb0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.390361]  mlx5_free_flow_attr_actions+0x11e/0x340 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.391015]  ? complete_all+0x43/0xd0
[ 2453.391398]  ? free_flow_post_acts+0x38/0x120 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.392004]  mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow+0x4ae/0x690 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.392618]  mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow+0x308/0x370 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.393276]  mlx5e_tc_clean_fdb_peer_flows+0xf5/0x140 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.393925]  mlx5_esw_offloads_unpair+0x86/0x540 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.394546]  ? mlx5_esw_offloads_set_ns_peer.isra.0+0x180/0x180 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.395268]  ? down_write+0xaa/0x100
[ 2453.395652]  mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_event+0x203/0x530 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.396317]  mlx5_devcom_send_event+0xbb/0x190 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.396917]  mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_cleanup+0xb0/0xd0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.397582]  mlx5e_tc_esw_cleanup+0x42/0x120 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.398182]  mlx5e_rep_tc_cleanup+0x15/0x30 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.398768]  mlx5e_cleanup_rep_tx+0x6c/0x80 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.399367]  mlx5e_detach_netdev+0xee/0x120 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.399957]  mlx5e_netdev_change_profile+0x84/0x170 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.400598]  mlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0xe0/0xf0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.403781]  mlx5_eswitch_unregister_vport_reps+0x15e/0x190 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.404479]  ? mlx5_eswitch_register_vport_reps+0x200/0x200 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.405170]  ? up_write+0x39/0x60
[ 2453.405529]  ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xb7/0xe0
[ 2453.405985]  auxiliary_bus_remove+0x2e/0x40
[ 2453.406405]  device_release_driver_internal+0x243/0x2d0
[ 2453.406900]  ? kobject_put+0x42/0x2d0
[ 2453.407284]  bus_remove_device+0x128/0x1d0
[ 2453.407687]  device_del+0x240/0x550
[ 2453.408053]  ? waiting_for_supplier_show+0xe0/0xe0
[ 2453.408511]  ? kobject_put+0xfa/0x2d0
[ 2453.408889]  ? __kmem_cache_free+0x14d/0x280
[ 2453.409310]  mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked.part.0+0xcd/0x2b0 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.409973]  mlx5_unregister_device+0x40/0x50 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.410561]  mlx5_uninit_one+0x3d/0x110 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.411111]  remove_one+0x89/0x130 [mlx5_core]
[ 2453.411628]  pci_device_remove+0x59/0xf0
[ 2453.412026]  device_release_driver_internal+0x243/0x2d0
[ 2453.412511]  ? parse_option_str+0x14/0x90
[ 2453.412915]  driver_detach+0x7b/0xf0
[ 2453.413289]  bus_remove_driver+0xb5/0x160
[ 2453.413685]  pci_unregister_driver+0x3f/0xf0
[ 2453.414104]  mlx5_cleanup+0xc/0x20 [mlx5_core]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54148 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.1.31 with commit b17294e7aa8c39dbb9c3e28e2d1983c88b94b387 and fixed in 6.1.45 with commit d628ba98eb1637acce44001e04c718d8dbb1f7ce
	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 2be5bd42a5bba1a05daedc86cf0e248210009669 and fixed in 6.4.10 with commit 36697c592cd0809e626df01b3644c23ac522a4d0
	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 2be5bd42a5bba1a05daedc86cf0e248210009669 and fixed in 6.5 with commit d03b6e6f31820b84f7449cca022047f36c42bc3f
	Issue introduced in 6.3.5 with commit 10cbfecc0f99f579fb170feee866c9efaab7ee47

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-2023-54148
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_rep.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/d628ba98eb1637acce44001e04c718d8dbb1f7ce
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36697c592cd0809e626df01b3644c23ac522a4d0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d03b6e6f31820b84f7449cca022047f36c42bc3f