CVE-2023-54148

net/mlx5e: Move representor neigh cleanup to profile cleanup_tx

published December 24, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/mlx5e: Move representor neigh cleanup to profile cleanup_tx

For IP tunnel encapsulation in ECMP (Equal-Cost Multipath) mode, as

the flow is duplicated to the peer eswitch, the related neighbour

information on the peer uplink representor is created as well.

In the cited commit, eswitch devcom unpair is moved to uplink unload

API, specifically the profile->cleanup_tx. If there is a encap rule

offloaded in ECMP mode, when one eswitch does unpair (because of

unloading the driver, for instance), and the peer rule from the peer

eswitch is going to be deleted, the use-after-free error is triggered

while accessing neigh info, as it is already cleaned up in uplink's

profile->disable, which is before its profile->cleanup_tx.

To fix this issue, move the neigh cleanup to profile's cleanup_tx

callback, and after mlx5e_cleanup_uplink_rep_tx is called. The neigh

init is moved to init_tx for symmeter.

[ 2453.376299] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.379125] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888127af9008 by task modprobe/2496

[ 2453.381542] CPU: 7 PID: 2496 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G B 6.4.0-rc7+ #15

[ 2453.383386] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

[ 2453.384335] Call Trace:

[ 2453.384625] <TASK>

[ 2453.384891] dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x50

[ 2453.385285] print_report+0xc2/0x610

[ 2453.385667] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xb1/0x130

[ 2453.386091] ? mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.386757] kasan_report+0xae/0xe0

[ 2453.387123] ? mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.387798] mlx5e_rep_neigh_entry_release+0x109/0x3a0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.388465] mlx5e_rep_encap_entry_detach+0xa6/0xe0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.389111] mlx5e_encap_dealloc+0xa7/0x100 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.389706] mlx5e_tc_tun_encap_dests_unset+0x61/0xb0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.390361] mlx5_free_flow_attr_actions+0x11e/0x340 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.391015] ? complete_all+0x43/0xd0

[ 2453.391398] ? free_flow_post_acts+0x38/0x120 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.392004] mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow+0x4ae/0x690 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.392618] mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_peers_flow+0x308/0x370 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.393276] mlx5e_tc_clean_fdb_peer_flows+0xf5/0x140 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.393925] mlx5_esw_offloads_unpair+0x86/0x540 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.394546] ? mlx5_esw_offloads_set_ns_peer.isra.0+0x180/0x180 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.395268] ? down_write+0xaa/0x100

[ 2453.395652] mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_event+0x203/0x530 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.396317] mlx5_devcom_send_event+0xbb/0x190 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.396917] mlx5_esw_offloads_devcom_cleanup+0xb0/0xd0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.397582] mlx5e_tc_esw_cleanup+0x42/0x120 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.398182] mlx5e_rep_tc_cleanup+0x15/0x30 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.398768] mlx5e_cleanup_rep_tx+0x6c/0x80 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.399367] mlx5e_detach_netdev+0xee/0x120 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.399957] mlx5e_netdev_change_profile+0x84/0x170 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.400598] mlx5e_vport_rep_unload+0xe0/0xf0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.403781] mlx5_eswitch_unregister_vport_reps+0x15e/0x190 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.404479] ? mlx5_eswitch_register_vport_reps+0x200/0x200 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.405170] ? up_write+0x39/0x60

[ 2453.405529] ? kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xb7/0xe0

[ 2453.405985] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x2e/0x40

[ 2453.406405] device_release_driver_internal+0x243/0x2d0

[ 2453.406900] ? kobject_put+0x42/0x2d0

[ 2453.407284] bus_remove_device+0x128/0x1d0

[ 2453.407687] device_del+0x240/0x550

[ 2453.408053] ? waiting_for_supplier_show+0xe0/0xe0

[ 2453.408511] ? kobject_put+0xfa/0x2d0

[ 2453.408889] ? __kmem_cache_free+0x14d/0x280

[ 2453.409310] mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked.part.0+0xcd/0x2b0 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.409973] mlx5_unregister_device+0x40/0x50 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.410561] mlx5_uninit_one+0x3d/0x110 [mlx5_core]

[ 2453.411111] remove_one+0x89/0x130 [mlx5_core]

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The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 8.9th percentile
Published
2025-12-24T13:07Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 DEC 13:07Z
    net/mlx5e: Move representor neigh cleanup to profile cleanup_tx
    cvelistv5