CVE-2023-54236

net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning

published December 30, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00214 · 11.2th percentile
Published
2025-12-30T12:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 DEC 12:11Z
    net/net_failover: fix txq exceeding warning
    cvelistv5