linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-54223: net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix invalid buffer access for legacy rq

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Message-ID: <2025123028-CVE-2023-54223-8c6b@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:13:53 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-54223: net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix invalid buffer access for legacy rq

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

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

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

net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix invalid buffer access for legacy rq

The below crash can be encountered when using xdpsock in rx mode for
legacy rq: the buffer gets released in the XDP_REDIRECT path, and then
once again in the driver. This fix sets the flag to avoid releasing on
the driver side.

XSK handling of buffers for legacy rq was relying on the caller to set
the skip release flag. But the referenced fix started using fragment
counts for pages instead of the skip flag.

Crash log:
 general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xffff8881217e3a: 0000 [#1] SMP
 CPU: 0 PID: 14 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1+ #31
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:bpf_prog_03b13f331978c78c+0xf/0x28
 Code:  ...
 RSP: 0018:ffff88810082fc98 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888138404901 RCX: c0ffffc900027cbc
 RDX: ffffffffa000b514 RSI: 00ffff8881217e32 RDI: ffff888138404901
 RBP: ffff88810082fc98 R08: 0000000000091100 R09: 0000000000000006
 R10: 0000000000000800 R11: 0000000000000800 R12: ffffc9000027a000
 R13: ffff8881217e2dc0 R14: ffff8881217e2910 R15: ffff8881217e2f00
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88852c800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000564cb2e2cde0 CR3: 000000010e603004 CR4: 0000000000370eb0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? die_addr+0x32/0x80
  ? exc_general_protection+0x192/0x390
  ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30
  ? 0xffffffffa000b514
  ? bpf_prog_03b13f331978c78c+0xf/0x28
  mlx5e_xdp_handle+0x48/0x670 [mlx5_core]
  ? dev_gro_receive+0x3b5/0x6e0
  mlx5e_xsk_skb_from_cqe_linear+0x6e/0x90 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe+0x55/0x100 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5e_poll_rx_cq+0x87/0x6e0 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5e_napi_poll+0x45e/0x6b0 [mlx5_core]
  __napi_poll+0x25/0x1a0
  net_rx_action+0x28a/0x300
  __do_softirq+0xcd/0x279
  ? sort_range+0x20/0x20
  run_ksoftirqd+0x1a/0x20
  smpboot_thread_fn+0xa2/0x130
  kthread+0xc9/0xf0
  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
  </TASK>
 Modules linked in: mlx5_ib mlx5_core rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm ib_uverbs ib_core xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter overlay zram zsmalloc fuse [last unloaded: mlx5_core]
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-54223 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.4.5 with commit cbb5379362513cbff450df0457dc370da7244bec and fixed in 6.4.10 with commit 58a113a35846d9a5bd759beb332e551e28451f09

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-2023-54223
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/xsk/rx.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/58a113a35846d9a5bd759beb332e551e28451f09
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0f52298fee449fec37e3e3c32df60008b509b16