linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53999: net/mlx5e: TC, Fix internal port memory leak

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Message-ID: <2025122426-CVE-2023-53999-57a4@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:56:43 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53999: net/mlx5e: TC, Fix internal port memory leak

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

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

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

net/mlx5e: TC, Fix internal port memory leak

The flow rule can be splited, and the extra post_act rules are added
to post_act table. It's possible to trigger memleak when the rule
forwards packets from internal port and over tunnel, in the case that,
for example, CT 'new' state offload is allowed. As int_port object is
assigned to the flow attribute of post_act rule, and its refcnt is
incremented by mlx5e_tc_int_port_get(), but mlx5e_tc_int_port_put() is
not called, the refcnt is never decremented, then int_port is never
freed.

The kmemleak reports the following error:
unreferenced object 0xffff888128204b80 (size 64):
  comm "handler20", pid 50121, jiffies 4296973009 (age 642.932s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 03 f0 00 00 04 00 00 00  ................
    98 77 67 41 81 88 ff ff 98 77 67 41 81 88 ff ff  .wgA.....wgA....
  backtrace:
    [<00000000e992680d>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x120
    [<000000009e945a98>] mlx5e_tc_int_port_get+0x3f3/0xe20 [mlx5_core]
    [<0000000035a537f0>] mlx5e_tc_add_fdb_flow+0x473/0xcf0 [mlx5_core]
    [<0000000070c2cec6>] __mlx5e_add_fdb_flow+0x7cf/0xe90 [mlx5_core]
    [<000000005cc84048>] mlx5e_configure_flower+0xd40/0x4c40 [mlx5_core]
    [<000000004f8a2031>] mlx5e_rep_indr_offload.isra.0+0x10e/0x1c0 [mlx5_core]
    [<000000007df797dc>] mlx5e_rep_indr_setup_tc_cb+0x90/0x130 [mlx5_core]
    [<0000000016c15cc3>] tc_setup_cb_add+0x1cf/0x410
    [<00000000a63305b4>] fl_hw_replace_filter+0x38f/0x670 [cls_flower]
    [<000000008bc9e77c>] fl_change+0x1fd5/0x4430 [cls_flower]
    [<00000000e7f766e4>] tc_new_tfilter+0x867/0x2010
    [<00000000e101c0ef>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x6fc/0x9f0
    [<00000000e1111d44>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360
    [<0000000082dd6c8b>] netlink_unicast+0x438/0x710
    [<00000000fc568f70>] netlink_sendmsg+0x794/0xc50
    [<0000000016e92590>] sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190

So fix this by moving int_port cleanup code to the flow attribute
free helper, which is used by all the attribute free cases.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53999 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit 8300f225268be9ee2c0daf5a3f23929fcdcbf213 and fixed in 6.4.11 with commit bc1918bac0f30e3f551ef5649b53062917db55fa
	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit 8300f225268be9ee2c0daf5a3f23929fcdcbf213 and fixed in 6.5 with commit ac5da544a3c2047cbfd715acd9cec8380d7fe5c6

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-2023-53999
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_tc.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/bc1918bac0f30e3f551ef5649b53062917db55fa
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac5da544a3c2047cbfd715acd9cec8380d7fe5c6