CVE-2023-53999 (GCVE-0-2023-53999)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-24 10:55
Modified
2025-12-24 10:55
Severity ?
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 8300f225268be9ee2c0daf5a3f23929fcdcbf213
Version: 8300f225268be9ee2c0daf5a3f23929fcdcbf213
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: TC, Fix internal port memory leak\n\nThe flow rule can be splited, and the extra post_act rules are added\nto post_act table. It\u0027s possible to trigger memleak when the rule\nforwards packets from internal port and over tunnel, in the case that,\nfor example, CT \u0027new\u0027 state offload is allowed. As int_port object is\nassigned to the flow attribute of post_act rule, and its refcnt is\nincremented by mlx5e_tc_int_port_get(), but mlx5e_tc_int_port_put() is\nnot called, the refcnt is never decremented, then int_port is never\nfreed.\n\nThe kmemleak reports the following error:\nunreferenced object 0xffff888128204b80 (size 64):\n  comm \"handler20\", pid 50121, jiffies 4296973009 (age 642.932s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    01 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 03 f0 00 00 04 00 00 00  ................\n    98 77 67 41 81 88 ff ff 98 77 67 41 81 88 ff ff  .wgA.....wgA....\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c00000000e992680d\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x120\n    [\u003c000000009e945a98\u003e] mlx5e_tc_int_port_get+0x3f3/0xe20 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c0000000035a537f0\u003e] mlx5e_tc_add_fdb_flow+0x473/0xcf0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c0000000070c2cec6\u003e] __mlx5e_add_fdb_flow+0x7cf/0xe90 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c000000005cc84048\u003e] mlx5e_configure_flower+0xd40/0x4c40 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c000000004f8a2031\u003e] mlx5e_rep_indr_offload.isra.0+0x10e/0x1c0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c000000007df797dc\u003e] mlx5e_rep_indr_setup_tc_cb+0x90/0x130 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c0000000016c15cc3\u003e] tc_setup_cb_add+0x1cf/0x410\n    [\u003c00000000a63305b4\u003e] fl_hw_replace_filter+0x38f/0x670 [cls_flower]\n    [\u003c000000008bc9e77c\u003e] fl_change+0x1fd5/0x4430 [cls_flower]\n    [\u003c00000000e7f766e4\u003e] tc_new_tfilter+0x867/0x2010\n    [\u003c00000000e101c0ef\u003e] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x6fc/0x9f0\n    [\u003c00000000e1111d44\u003e] netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360\n    [\u003c0000000082dd6c8b\u003e] netlink_unicast+0x438/0x710\n    [\u003c00000000fc568f70\u003e] netlink_sendmsg+0x794/0xc50\n    [\u003c0000000016e92590\u003e] sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190\n\nSo fix this by moving int_port cleanup code to the flow attribute\nfree helper, which is used by all the attribute free cases."
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