CVE-2023-53134

bnxt_en: Avoid order-5 memory allocation for TPA data

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 2, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 2, 2025

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Description

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

bnxt_en: Avoid order-5 memory allocation for TPA data

The driver needs to keep track of all the possible concurrent TPA (GRO/LRO) completions on the aggregation ring. On P5 chips, the maximum number of concurrent TPA is 256 and the amount of memory we allocate is order-5 on systems using 4K pages. Memory allocation failure has been reported:

NetworkManager: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1 CPU: 15 PID: 2995 Comm: NetworkManager Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.10.156 #1 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R660/0M1CC5, BIOS 0.2.25 08/12/2022 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x57/0x6e warn_alloc.cold.120+0x7b/0xdd ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30 ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x15f/0x170 __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.108+0xc58/0xc70 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2d0/0x300 kmalloc_order+0x24/0xe0 kmalloc_order_trace+0x19/0x80 bnxt_alloc_mem+0x1150/0x15c0 [bnxt_en] ? bnxt_get_func_stat_ctxs+0x13/0x60 [bnxt_en] __bnxt_open_nic+0x12e/0x780 [bnxt_en] bnxt_open+0x10b/0x240 [bnxt_en] __dev_open+0xe9/0x180 __dev_change_flags+0x1af/0x220 dev_change_flags+0x21/0x60 do_setlink+0x35c/0x1100

Instead of allocating this big chunk of memory and dividing it up for the concurrent TPA instances, allocate each small chunk separately for each TPA instance. This will reduce it to order-0 allocations.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 79632e9ba38671215fb193346ef6fb8db582744d to before 16f3aae1aa2dd89bc8d073a67f190af580386ae9Affected
  • 79632e9ba38671215fb193346ef6fb8db582744d to before d16701a385b54f44bf41ff1d7485e7a11080deb3Affected
  • 79632e9ba38671215fb193346ef6fb8db582744d to before 20fd0607acbf9770db9b99e3418dd75614f80b6cAffected
  • 79632e9ba38671215fb193346ef6fb8db582744d to before fcae40e65802547def39b4deaa2ae38a29864d81Affected
  • 79632e9ba38671215fb193346ef6fb8db582744d to before ad529d1fae1565d38f929479d4ea8aea90054bd2Affected
  • 79632e9ba38671215fb193346ef6fb8db582744d to before accd7e23693aaaa9aa0d3e9eca0ae77d1be80ab3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.4Affected
  • before 5.4Not affected
  • 5.4.237 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.175 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.103 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.20 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.7 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

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