CVE-2023-53720

net/mlx5e: Release the label when replacing existing ct entry

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 22, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 22, 2025

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Description

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

net/mlx5e: Release the label when replacing existing ct entry

Cited commit doesn't release the label mapping when replacing existing ct entry which leads to following memleak report:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881854cf280 (size 96): comm "kworker/u48:74", pid 23093, jiffies 4296664564 (age 175.944s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000002722d368>] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x1c0 [<00000000cc44e18f>] mapping_add+0x6e8/0xc90 [mlx5_core] [<000000003ad942a7>] mlx5_get_label_mapping+0x66/0xe0 [mlx5_core] [<00000000266308ac>] mlx5_tc_ct_entry_create_mod_hdr+0x1c4/0xf50 [mlx5_core] [<000000009a768b4f>] mlx5_tc_ct_entry_add_rule+0x16f/0xaf0 [mlx5_core] [<00000000a178f3e5>] mlx5_tc_ct_block_flow_offload_add+0x10cb/0x1f90 [mlx5_core] [<000000007b46c496>] mlx5_tc_ct_block_flow_offload+0x14a/0x630 [mlx5_core] [<00000000a9a18ac5>] nf_flow_offload_tuple+0x1a3/0x390 [nf_flow_table] [<00000000d0881951>] flow_offload_work_handler+0x257/0xd30 [nf_flow_table] [<000000009e4935a4>] process_one_work+0x7c2/0x13e0 [<00000000f5cd36a7>] worker_thread+0x59d/0xec0 [<00000000baed1daf>] kthread+0x28f/0x330 [<0000000063d282a4>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Fix the issue by correctly releasing the label mapping.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 94ceffb48eac7692677d8093dcde6965b70c4b35 to before 3db903a71f1f4bbf30baae166a4a49f2e8aceb61Affected
  • 94ceffb48eac7692677d8093dcde6965b70c4b35 to before 8ac04a28144cfa89b61be518268233742c23d88dAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.3Affected
  • before 6.3Not affected
  • 6.3.2 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4 and laterNot affected

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