CVE-2023-53811

RDMA/irdma: Cap MSIX used to online CPUs + 1

published December 9, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

RDMA/irdma: Cap MSIX used to online CPUs + 1

The irdma driver can use a maximum number of msix vectors equal

to num_online_cpus() + 1 and the kernel warning stack below is shown

if that number is exceeded.

The kernel throws a warning as the driver tries to update the affinity

hint with a CPU mask greater than the max CPU IDs. Fix this by capping

the MSIX vectors to num_online_cpus() + 1.

WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 23655 at include/linux/cpumask.h:106 irdma_cfg_ceq_vector+0x34c/0x3f0 [irdma]

RIP: 0010:irdma_cfg_ceq_vector+0x34c/0x3f0 [irdma]

Call Trace:

irdma_rt_init_hw+0xa62/0x1290 [irdma]

? irdma_alloc_local_mac_entry+0x1a0/0x1a0 [irdma]

? __is_kernel_percpu_address+0x63/0x310

? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0xe/0xb0

? irdma_lan_unregister_qset+0x280/0x280 [irdma]

? irdma_request_reset+0x80/0x80 [irdma]

? ice_get_qos_params+0x84/0x390 [ice]

irdma_probe+0xa40/0xfc0 [irdma]

? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xd0/0xd0

? irdma_remove+0x140/0x140 [irdma]

? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x62/0xe0

? down_write+0x187/0x3d0

? auxiliary_match_id+0xf0/0x1a0

? irdma_remove+0x140/0x140 [irdma]

auxiliary_bus_probe+0xa6/0x100

__driver_probe_device+0x4a4/0xd50

? __device_attach_driver+0x2c0/0x2c0

driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x110

__driver_attach+0x1aa/0x350

bus_for_each_dev+0x11d/0x1b0

? subsys_dev_iter_init+0xe0/0xe0

bus_add_driver+0x3b1/0x610

driver_register+0x18e/0x410

? 0xffffffffc0b88000

irdma_init_module+0x50/0xaa [irdma]

do_one_initcall+0x103/0x5f0

? perf_trace_initcall_level+0x420/0x420

? do_init_module+0x4e/0x700

? __kasan_kmalloc+0x7d/0xa0

? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x188/0x2b0

? kasan_unpoison+0x21/0x50

do_init_module+0x1d1/0x700

load_module+0x3867/0x5260

? layout_and_allocate+0x3990/0x3990

? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0xe/0xb0

? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x62/0xe0

? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xd0/0xd0

? __vmalloc_node_range+0x46b/0x890

? lock_release+0x5c8/0xba0

? alloc_vm_area+0x120/0x120

? selinux_kernel_module_from_file+0x2a5/0x300

? __inode_security_revalidate+0xf0/0xf0

? __do_sys_init_module+0x1db/0x260

__do_sys_init_module+0x1db/0x260

? load_module+0x5260/0x5260

? do_syscall_64+0x22/0x450

do_syscall_64+0xa5/0x450

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xdb

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00186 · 7.8th percentile
Published
2025-12-09T00:01Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 00:01Z
    RDMA/irdma: Cap MSIX used to online CPUs + 1
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