Bug 2363698 (CVE-2023-53114)

Summary:	CVE-2023-53114 kernel: i40e: Fix kernel crash during reboot when adapter is in recovery mode
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the i40e module in the Linux kernel. When the firmware is in recovery mode during the probe phase some probe functions are skipped, causing a NULL pointer dereference when the system shuts down or is rebooted, resulting in a denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-02 16:02:16 UTC

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

i40e: Fix kernel crash during reboot when adapter is in recovery mode

If the driver detects during probe that firmware is in recovery
mode then i40e_init_recovery_mode() is called and the rest of
probe function is skipped including pci_set_drvdata(). Subsequent
i40e_shutdown() called during shutdown/reboot dereferences NULL
pointer as pci_get_drvdata() returns NULL.

To fix call pci_set_drvdata() also during entering to recovery mode.

Reproducer:
1) Lets have i40e NIC with firmware in recovery mode
2) Run reboot

Result:
[  139.084698] i40e: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver
[  139.090959] i40e: Copyright (c) 2013 - 2019 Intel Corporation.
[  139.108438] i40e 0000:02:00.0: Firmware recovery mode detected. Limiting functionality.
[  139.116439] i40e 0000:02:00.0: Refer to the Intel(R) Ethernet Adapters and Devices User Guide for details on firmware recovery mode.
[  139.129499] i40e 0000:02:00.0: fw 8.3.64775 api 1.13 nvm 8.30 0x8000b78d 1.3106.0 [8086:1583] [15d9:084a]
[  139.215932] i40e 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0f0: renamed from eth0
[  139.223292] i40e 0000:02:00.1: Firmware recovery mode detected. Limiting functionality.
[  139.231292] i40e 0000:02:00.1: Refer to the Intel(R) Ethernet Adapters and Devices User Guide for details on firmware recovery mode.
[  139.244406] i40e 0000:02:00.1: fw 8.3.64775 api 1.13 nvm 8.30 0x8000b78d 1.3106.0 [8086:1583] [15d9:084a]
[  139.329209] i40e 0000:02:00.1 enp2s0f1: renamed from eth0
...
[  156.311376] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000006c2
[  156.318330] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[  156.323546] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[  156.328679] PGD 0 P4D 0
[  156.331210] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[  156.335567] CPU: 26 PID: 15119 Comm: reboot Tainted: G            E      6.2.0+ #1
[  156.343126] Hardware name: Abacus electric, s.r.o. - servis Super Server/H12SSW-iN, BIOS 2.4 04/13/2022
[  156.353369] RIP: 0010:i40e_shutdown+0x15/0x130 [i40e]
[  156.358430] Code: c1 fc ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 fd 53 48 8b 9f 48 01 00 00 <f0> 80 8b c2 06 00 00 04 f0 80 8b c0 06 00 00 08 48 8d bb 08 08 00
[  156.377168] RSP: 0018:ffffb223c8447d90 EFLAGS: 00010282
[  156.382384] RAX: ffffffffc073ee70 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001
[  156.389510] RDX: 0000000080000001 RSI: 0000000000000246 RDI: ffff95db49988000
[  156.396634] RBP: ffff95db49988000 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: ffffffff8bd17d40
[  156.403759] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffffff8a5e3d28 R12: ffff95db49988000
[  156.410882] R13: ffffffff89a6fe17 R14: ffff95db49988150 R15: 0000000000000000
[  156.418007] FS:  00007fe7c0cc3980(0000) GS:ffff95ea8ee80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  156.426083] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  156.431819] CR2: 00000000000006c2 CR3: 00000003092fc005 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[  156.438944] PKRU: 55555554
[  156.441647] Call Trace:
[  156.444096]  <TASK>
[  156.446199]  pci_device_shutdown+0x38/0x60
[  156.450297]  device_shutdown+0x163/0x210
[  156.454215]  kernel_restart+0x12/0x70
[  156.457872]  __do_sys_reboot+0x1ab/0x230
[  156.461789]  ? vfs_writev+0xa6/0x1a0
[  156.465362]  ? __pfx_file_free_rcu+0x10/0x10
[  156.469635]  ? __call_rcu_common.constprop.85+0x109/0x5a0
[  156.475034]  do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x90
[  156.478611]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
[  156.483658] RIP: 0033:0x7fe7bff37ab7

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 06:02:20 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050228-CVE-2023-53114-39ab@gregkh/T