CVE-2023-53507

net/mlx5: Unregister devlink params in case interface is down

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 1, 2025

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Description

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

net/mlx5: Unregister devlink params in case interface is down

Currently, in case an interface is down, mlx5 driver doesn't unregister its devlink params, which leads to this WARN[1]. Fix it by unregistering devlink params in that case as well.

[1] [ 295.244769 ] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 1 at net/core/devlink.c:9042 devlink_free+0x174/0x1fc [ 295.488379 ] CPU: 15 PID: 1 Comm: shutdown Tainted: G S OE 5.15.0-1017.19.3.g0677e61-bluefield #g0677e61 [ 295.509330 ] Hardware name: https://www.mellanox.com BlueField SoC/BlueField SoC, BIOS 4.2.0.12761 Jun 6 2023 [ 295.543096 ] pc : devlink_free+0x174/0x1fc [ 295.551104 ] lr : mlx5_devlink_free+0x18/0x2c [mlx5_core] [ 295.561816 ] sp : ffff80000809b850 [ 295.711155 ] Call trace: [ 295.716030 ] devlink_free+0x174/0x1fc [ 295.723346 ] mlx5_devlink_free+0x18/0x2c [mlx5_core] [ 295.733351 ] mlx5_sf_dev_remove+0x98/0xb0 [mlx5_core] [ 295.743534 ] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x2c/0x50 [ 295.751893 ] __device_release_driver+0x19c/0x280 [ 295.761120 ] device_release_driver+0x34/0x50 [ 295.769649 ] bus_remove_device+0xdc/0x170 [ 295.777656 ] device_del+0x17c/0x3a4 [ 295.784620 ] mlx5_sf_dev_remove+0x28/0xf0 [mlx5_core] [ 295.794800 ] mlx5_sf_dev_table_destroy+0x98/0x110 [mlx5_core] [ 295.806375 ] mlx5_unload+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_core] [ 295.815339 ] mlx5_unload_one+0x70/0xe4 [mlx5_core] [ 295.824998 ] shutdown+0xb0/0xd8 [mlx5_core] [ 295.833439 ] pci_device_shutdown+0x3c/0xa0 [ 295.841651 ] device_shutdown+0x170/0x340 [ 295.849486 ] __do_sys_reboot+0x1f4/0x2a0 [ 295.857322 ] __arm64_sys_reboot+0x2c/0x40 [ 295.865329 ] invoke_syscall+0x78/0x100 [ 295.872817 ] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x54/0x184 [ 295.882392 ] do_el0_svc+0x30/0xac [ 295.889008 ] el0_svc+0x48/0x160 [ 295.895278 ] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x130 [ 295.903807 ] el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8 [ 295.911120 ] ---[ end trace 4f1d2381d00d9dce ]---

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fe578cbb2f053f465e19d2671a523dcd01953888 to before 471f59b3455314f0cafacf3096453727876355a9Affected
  • fe578cbb2f053f465e19d2671a523dcd01953888 to before 53d737dfd3d7b023fa9fa445ea3f3db0ac9da402Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.4.10 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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