linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54008: virtio_vdpa: build affinity masks conditionally

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Message-ID: <2025122429-CVE-2023-54008-cfde@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:56:52 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54008: virtio_vdpa: build affinity masks conditionally

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

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

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

virtio_vdpa: build affinity masks conditionally

We try to build affinity mask via create_affinity_masks()
unconditionally which may lead several issues:

- the affinity mask is not used for parent without affinity support
  (only VDUSE support the affinity now)
- the logic of create_affinity_masks() might not work for devices
  other than block. For example it's not rare in the networking device
  where the number of queues could exceed the number of CPUs. Such
  case breaks the current affinity logic which is based on
  group_cpus_evenly() who assumes the number of CPUs are not less than
  the number of groups. This can trigger a warning[1]:

	if (ret >= 0)
		WARN_ON(nr_present + nr_others < numgrps);

Fixing this by only build the affinity masks only when

- Driver passes affinity descriptor, driver like virtio-blk can make
  sure to limit the number of queues when it exceeds the number of CPUs
- Parent support affinity setting config ops

This help to avoid the warning. More optimizations could be done on
top.

[1]
[  682.146655] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 1550 at lib/group_cpus.c:400 group_cpus_evenly+0x1aa/0x1c0
[  682.146668] CPU: 6 PID: 1550 Comm: vdpa Not tainted 6.5.0-rc5jason+ #79
[  682.146671] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[  682.146673] RIP: 0010:group_cpus_evenly+0x1aa/0x1c0
[  682.146676] Code: 4c 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c3 cc cc cc cc e8 1b c4 74 ff 48 89 ef e8 13 ac 98 ff 4c 89 e7 45 31 e4 e8 08 ac 98 ff eb c2 <0f> 0b eb b6 e8 fd 05 c3 00 45 31 e4 eb e5 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
[  682.146679] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000215f498 EFLAGS: 00010293
[  682.146682] RAX: 000000000001f1e0 RBX: 0000000000000041 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  682.146684] RDX: ffff888109922058 RSI: 0000000000000041 RDI: 0000000000000030
[  682.146686] RBP: ffff888109922058 R08: ffffc9000215f498 R09: ffffc9000215f4a0
[  682.146687] R10: 00000000000198d0 R11: 0000000000000030 R12: ffff888107e02800
[  682.146689] R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000041
[  682.146692] FS:  00007fef52315740(0000) GS:ffff888237380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  682.146695] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  682.146696] CR2: 00007fef52509000 CR3: 0000000110dbc004 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
[  682.146698] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  682.146700] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  682.146701] Call Trace:
[  682.146703]  <TASK>
[  682.146705]  ? __warn+0x7b/0x130
[  682.146709]  ? group_cpus_evenly+0x1aa/0x1c0
[  682.146712]  ? report_bug+0x1c8/0x1e0
[  682.146717]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
[  682.146721]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
[  682.146723]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
[  682.146727]  ? group_cpus_evenly+0x1aa/0x1c0
[  682.146729]  ? group_cpus_evenly+0x15c/0x1c0
[  682.146731]  create_affinity_masks+0xaf/0x1a0
[  682.146735]  virtio_vdpa_find_vqs+0x83/0x1d0
[  682.146738]  ? __pfx_default_calc_sets+0x10/0x10
[  682.146742]  virtnet_find_vqs+0x1f0/0x370
[  682.146747]  virtnet_probe+0x501/0xcd0
[  682.146749]  ? vp_modern_get_status+0x12/0x20
[  682.146751]  ? get_cap_addr.isra.0+0x10/0xc0
[  682.146754]  virtio_dev_probe+0x1af/0x260
[  682.146759]  really_probe+0x1a5/0x410

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54008 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 3dad56823b5332ffdbe1867b2d7b50fbacea124a and fixed in 6.4.16 with commit 5f2592243ccd5bb5341f59be409ccfdd586841f3
	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 3dad56823b5332ffdbe1867b2d7b50fbacea124a and fixed in 6.5.3 with commit 628b53fc66ca1910a3cb53c3c7e44e59750c3668
	Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 3dad56823b5332ffdbe1867b2d7b50fbacea124a and fixed in 6.6 with commit ae15aceaa98ad9499763923f7890e345d9f46b60

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-2023-54008
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/virtio/virtio_vdpa.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/5f2592243ccd5bb5341f59be409ccfdd586841f3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/628b53fc66ca1910a3cb53c3c7e44e59750c3668
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae15aceaa98ad9499763923f7890e345d9f46b60