CVE-2023-53286

RDMA/mlx5: Return the firmware result upon destroying QP/RQ

High · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

RDMA/mlx5: Return the firmware result upon destroying QP/RQ

Previously when destroying a QP/RQ, the result of the firmware

destruction function was ignored and upper layers weren't informed

about the failure.

Which in turn could lead to various problems since when upper layer

isn't aware of the failure it continues its operation thinking that the

related QP/RQ was successfully destroyed while it actually wasn't,

which could lead to the below kernel WARN.

Currently, we return the correct firmware destruction status to upper

layers which in case of the RQ would be mlx5_ib_destroy_wq() which

was already capable of handling RQ destruction failure or in case of

a QP to destroy_qp_common(), which now would actually warn upon qp

destruction failure.

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 995 at drivers/infiniband/core/rdma_core.c:940 uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0xcb/0xe0 [ib_uverbs]

Modules linked in: xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core overlay mlx5_core fuse

CPU: 3 PID: 995 Comm: python3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5+ #1

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

RIP: 0010:uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0xcb/0xe0 [ib_uverbs]

Code: 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e e9 44 34 f0 e0 48 89 df e8 4c 77 ff ff 49 8b 86 10 01 00 00 48 85 c0 74 a1 4c 89 e7 ff d0 eb 9a 0f 0b eb c1 <0f> 0b be 04 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 b6 f6 ff ff e9 75 ff ff ff 90 0f

RSP: 0018:ffff8881533e3e78 EFLAGS: 00010287

RAX: ffff88811b2cf3e0 RBX: ffff888106209700 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: ffff888106209780 RSI: ffff8881533e3d30 RDI: ffff888109b101a0

RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff888127cb381c R09: 0de9890000000009

R10: ffff888127cb3800 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888106209780

R13: ffff888106209750 R14: ffff888100f20660 R15: 0000000000000000

FS: 00007f8be353b740(0000) GS:ffff88852c980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 00007f8bd5b117c0 CR3: 000000012cd8a004 CR4: 0000000000370ea0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<TASK>

ib_uverbs_close+0x1a/0x90 [ib_uverbs]

__fput+0x82/0x230

task_work_run+0x59/0x90

exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x138/0x140

syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50

? __x64_sys_close+0xe/0x40

do_syscall_64+0x4a/0x90

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

RIP: 0033:0x7f8be3ae0abb

Code: 03 00 00 00 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 41 c3 48 83 ec 18 89 7c 24 0c e8 83 43 f9 ff 8b 7c 24 0c 41 89 c0 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 89 44 24 0c e8 c1 43 f9 ff 8b 44

RSP: 002b:00007ffdb51909c0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000557bb7f7c020 RCX: 00007f8be3ae0abb

RDX: 0000557bb7c74010 RSI: 0000557bb7f14ca0 RDI: 0000000000000005

RBP: 0000557bb7fbd598 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000557bb7fbd5b8

R13: 0000557bb7fbd5a8 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: 0000557bb7f7c020

</TASK>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00156 · 4.4th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T08:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 08:11Z
    RDMA/mlx5: Return the firmware result upon destroying QP/RQ
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