CVE-2023-54048

RDMA/bnxt_re: Prevent handling any completions after qp destroy

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

RDMA/bnxt_re: Prevent handling any completions after qp destroy

HW may generate completions that indicates QP is destroyed. Driver should not be scheduling any more completion handlers for this QP, after the QP is destroyed. Since CQs are active during the QP destroy, driver may still schedule completion handlers. This can cause a race where the destroy_cq and poll_cq running simultaneously.

Snippet of kernel panic while doing bnxt_re driver load unload in loop. This indicates a poll after the CQ is freed.

[77786.481636] Call Trace: [77786.481640]  <TASK> [77786.481644]  bnxt_re_poll_cq+0x14a/0x620 [bnxt_re] [77786.481658]  ? kvm_clock_read+0x14/0x30 [77786.481693]  __ib_process_cq+0x57/0x190 [ib_core] [77786.481728]  ib_cq_poll_work+0x26/0x80 [ib_core] [77786.481761]  process_one_work+0x1e5/0x3f0 [77786.481768]  worker_thread+0x50/0x3a0 [77786.481785]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [77786.481790]  kthread+0xe2/0x110 [77786.481794]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [77786.481797]  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50

To avoid this, complete all completion handlers before returning the destroy QP. If free_cq is called soon after destroy_qp, IB stack will cancel the CQ work before invoking the destroy_cq verb and this will prevent any race mentioned.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1ac5a404797523cedaf424a3aaa3cf8f9548dff8 to before b79a0e71d6e8692e0b6da05f8aaa7d69191cf7e7Affected
  • 1ac5a404797523cedaf424a3aaa3cf8f9548dff8 to before b8500538b8f5b2cd86b02754c8de83eaa7a2d6baAffected
  • 1ac5a404797523cedaf424a3aaa3cf8f9548dff8 to before 7faa6097694164380ed19600c7a7993d071270b9Affected
  • 1ac5a404797523cedaf424a3aaa3cf8f9548dff8 to before b5bbc6551297447d3cca55cf907079e206e9cd82Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.11Affected
  • before 4.11Not affected
  • 5.15.124 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.43 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.8 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5 and laterNot affected

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