CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53110
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: fix NULL sndbuf_desc in smc_cdc_tx_handler()
When performing a stress test on SMC-R by rmmod mlx5_ib driver
during the wrk/nginx test, we found that there is a probability
of triggering a panic while terminating all link groups.
This issue dues to the race between smc_smcr_terminate_all()
and smc_buf_create().
smc_smcr_terminate_all
smc_buf_create
/* init */
conn->sndbuf_desc = NULL;
...
__smc_lgr_terminate
smc_conn_kill
smc_close_abort
smc_cdc_get_slot_and_msg_send
__softirqentry_text_start
smc_wr_tx_process_cqe
smc_cdc_tx_handler
READ(conn->sndbuf_desc->len);
/* panic dues to NULL sndbuf_desc */
conn->sndbuf_desc = xxx;
This patch tries to fix the issue by always to check the sndbuf_desc
before send any cdc msg, to make sure that no null pointer is
seen during cqe processing.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.104)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.21)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22a825c541d775c1dbe7b2402786025acad6727b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31817c530768b0199771ec6019571b4f0ddbf230 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c270435db8aa34929263dddae8fd050f5216ecb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ebac7cf0a184a8102821a7a00203f02bebda83c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b108bd9e6be000492ebebe867daa699285978a10 Patch