linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54247: bpf: Silence a warning in btf_type_id

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Message-ID: <2025123053-CVE-2023-54247-4cf1@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:20:13 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54247: bpf: Silence a warning in btf_type_id_size()

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

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

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

bpf: Silence a warning in btf_type_id_size()

syzbot reported a warning in [1] with the following stacktrace:
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5005 at kernel/bpf/btf.c:1988 btf_type_id_size+0x2d9/0x9d0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:1988
  ...
  RIP: 0010:btf_type_id_size+0x2d9/0x9d0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:1988
  ...
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   map_check_btf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1024 [inline]
   map_create+0x1157/0x1860 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1198
   __sys_bpf+0x127f/0x5420 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5040
   __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5162 [inline]
   __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5160 [inline]
   __x64_sys_bpf+0x79/0xc0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5160
   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
   do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

With the following btf
  [1] DECL_TAG 'a' type_id=4 component_idx=-1
  [2] PTR '(anon)' type_id=0
  [3] TYPE_TAG 'a' type_id=2
  [4] VAR 'a' type_id=3, linkage=static
and when the bpf_attr.btf_key_type_id = 1 (DECL_TAG),
the following WARN_ON_ONCE in btf_type_id_size() is triggered:
  if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!btf_type_is_modifier(size_type) &&
                   !btf_type_is_var(size_type)))
          return NULL;

Note that 'return NULL' is the correct behavior as we don't want
a DECL_TAG type to be used as a btf_{key,value}_type_id even
for the case like 'DECL_TAG -> STRUCT'. So there
is no correctness issue here, we just want to silence warning.

To silence the warning, I added DECL_TAG as one of kinds in
btf_type_nosize() which will cause btf_type_id_size() returning
NULL earlier without the warning.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/000000000000e0df8d05fc75ba86@google.com/

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54247 to this issue.

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

	Fixed in 6.1.110 with commit 61f4bd46a03a81865aca3bcbad2f7b7032fb3160
	Fixed in 6.4.7 with commit 7c4f5ab63e7962812505cbd38cc765168a223acb
	Fixed in 6.5 with commit e6c2f594ed961273479505b42040782820190305

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-2023-54247
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:
	kernel/bpf/btf.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/61f4bd46a03a81865aca3bcbad2f7b7032fb3160
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c4f5ab63e7962812505cbd38cc765168a223acb
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6c2f594ed961273479505b42040782820190305