CVE-2023-54238

mlx5: fix skb leak while fifo resync and push

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Dec 30, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 30, 2025

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Description

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

mlx5: fix skb leak while fifo resync and push

During ptp resync operation SKBs were poped from the fifo but were never freed neither by napi_consume nor by dev_kfree_skb_any. Add call to napi_consume_skb to properly free SKBs.

Another leak was happening because mlx5e_skb_fifo_has_room() had an error in the check. Comparing free running counters works well unless C promotes the types to something wider than the counter. In this case counters are u16 but the result of the substraction is promouted to int and it causes wrong result (negative value) of the check when producer have already overlapped but consumer haven't yet. Explicit cast to u16 fixes the issue.

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
  • 58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a to before 234cffda95e1049f58e8ec136ef105c633f0ed19Affected
  • 58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a to before 68504c66d08c70fb92799722e25a932d311d74fdAffected
  • 58a518948f60153e8f6cb8361d2712aa3a1af94a to before e435941b1da1a0be4ff8a7ae425774c76a5ac514Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.0Affected
  • before 6.0Not affected
  • 6.1.18 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.5 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3 and laterNot affected

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