CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-54236
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-30
- Last modified
- 2026-10-28
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning
The failover txq is inited as 16 queues.
when a packet is transmitted from the failover device firstly,
the failover device will select the queue which is returned from
the primary device if the primary device is UP and running.
If the primary device txq is bigger than the default 16,
it can lead to the following warning:
eth0 selects TX queue 18, but real number of TX queues is 16
The warning backtrace is:
[ 32.146376] CPU: 18 PID: 9134 Comm: chronyd Tainted: G E 6.2.8-1.el7.centos.x86_64 #1
[ 32.147175] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.10.2-3.el7_4.1 04/01/2014
[ 32.147730] Call Trace:
[ 32.147971] <TASK>
[ 32.148183] dump_stack_lvl+0x48/0x70
[ 32.148514] dump_stack+0x10/0x20
[ 32.148820] netdev_core_pick_tx+0xb1/0xe0
[ 32.149180] __dev_queue_xmit+0x529/0xcf0
[ 32.149533] ? __check_object_size.part.0+0x21c/0x2c0
[ 32.149967] ip_finish_output2+0x278/0x560
[ 32.150327] __ip_finish_output+0x1fe/0x2f0
[ 32.150690] ip_finish_output+0x2a/0xd0
[ 32.151032] ip_output+0x7a/0x110
[ 32.151337] ? __pfx_ip_finish_output+0x10/0x10
[ 32.151733] ip_local_out+0x5e/0x70
[ 32.152054] ip_send_skb+0x19/0x50
[ 32.152366] udp_send_skb.isra.0+0x163/0x3a0
[ 32.152736] udp_sendmsg+0xba8/0xec0
[ 32.153060] ? __folio_memcg_unlock+0x25/0x60
[ 32.153445] ? __pfx_ip_generic_getfrag+0x10/0x10
[ 32.153854] ? sock_has_perm+0x85/0xa0
[ 32.154190] inet_sendmsg+0x6d/0x80
[ 32.154508] ? inet_sendmsg+0x6d/0x80
[ 32.154838] sock_sendmsg+0x62/0x70
[ 32.155152] ____sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x290
[ 32.155499] ___sys_sendmsg+0x81/0xc0
[ 32.155828] ? _get_random_bytes.part.0+0x79/0x1a0
[ 32.156240] ? ip4_datagram_release_cb+0x5f/0x1e0
[ 32.156649] ? get_random_u16+0x69/0xf0
[ 32.156989] ? __fget_light+0xcf/0x110
[ 32.157326] __sys_sendmmsg+0xc4/0x210
[ 32.157657] ? __sys_connect+0xb7/0xe0
[ 32.157995] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xce/0x140
[ 32.158388] ? syscall_trace_enter.isra.0+0x12c/0x1a0
[ 32.158820] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x24/0x30
[ 32.159171] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
[ 32.159493] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
Fix that by reducing txq number as the non-existent primary-dev does.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/105cc268328231d5c2bfcbd03f265cec444a3492 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d5cebf57296f0189a61482035ad420384eedead git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44d250c22209c680f61befbc2ac326da5452da01 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c942f5cd63b7c2e73fe06744185a34b03267595b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3cbdcb0fbb61045ef3ce0e072927cc41737f787 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f032e125149d914e542548c17ebd613851031368 git.kernel.org