Bug 2395676 (CVE-2023-53272)

Summary:	CVE-2023-53272 kernel: net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-16 09:02:46 UTC

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

net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff

The ENA adapters on our instances occasionally reset.  Once recently
logged a UBSAN failure to console in the process:

  UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in build/linux/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c:540:13
  shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int'
  CPU: 28 PID: 70012 Comm: kworker/u72:2 Kdump: loaded not tainted 5.15.117
  Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017
  Workqueue: ena ena_fw_reset_device [ena]
  Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x63
  dump_stack+0x10/0x16
  ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x36
  __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x61/0x10e
  ? __const_udelay+0x43/0x50
  ena_delay_exponential_backoff_us.cold+0x16/0x1e [ena]
  wait_for_reset_state+0x54/0xa0 [ena]
  ena_com_dev_reset+0xc8/0x110 [ena]
  ena_down+0x3fe/0x480 [ena]
  ena_destroy_device+0xeb/0xf0 [ena]
  ena_fw_reset_device+0x30/0x50 [ena]
  process_one_work+0x22b/0x3d0
  worker_thread+0x4d/0x3f0
  ? process_one_work+0x3d0/0x3d0
  kthread+0x12a/0x150
  ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
  </TASK>

Apparently, the reset delays are getting so large they can trigger a
UBSAN panic.

Looking at the code, the current timeout is capped at 5000us.  Using a
base value of 100us, the current code will overflow after (1<<29).  Even
at values before 32, this function wraps around, perhaps
unintentionally.

Cap the value of the exponent used for this backoff at (1<<16) which is
larger than currently necessary, but large enough to support bigger
values in the future.

Comment 1 Keith Grant 2025-09-16 14:02:11 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091604-CVE-2023-53272-3be5@gregkh/T