Bug 2426186 (CVE-2023-54318)

Summary:	CVE-2023-54318 kernel: net/smc: use smc_lgr_list.lock to protect smc_lgr_list.list iterate in smcr_port_add
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A race condition was found in the SMC networking subsystem. Iterating over the link group list in smcr_port_add() without holding the lock can cause crashes when concurrent add/remove operations modify the list.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:15:01 UTC

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

net/smc: use smc_lgr_list.lock to protect smc_lgr_list.list iterate in smcr_port_add

While doing smcr_port_add, there maybe linkgroup add into or delete
from smc_lgr_list.list at the same time, which may result kernel crash.
So, use smc_lgr_list.lock to protect smc_lgr_list.list iterate in
smcr_port_add.

The crash calltrace show below:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 PID: 559726 Comm: kworker/0:92 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G
Hardware name: Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud ECS, BIOS 449e491 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events smc_ib_port_event_work [smc]
RIP: 0010:smcr_port_add+0xa6/0xf0 [smc]
RSP: 0000:ffffa5a2c8f67de0 EFLAGS: 00010297
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9935e0650000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffff9935e0654290 RDI: ffff9935c8560000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff9934c0401918
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffffb4a5c278 R12: ffff99364029aae4
R13: ffff99364029aa00 R14: 00000000ffffffed R15: ffff99364029ab08
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff994380600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000f06a10003 CR4: 0000000002770ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 smc_ib_port_event_work+0x18f/0x380 [smc]
 process_one_work+0x19b/0x340
 worker_thread+0x30/0x370
 ? process_one_work+0x340/0x340
 kthread+0x114/0x130
 ? __kthread_cancel_work+0x50/0x50
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-31 02:57:22 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025123038-CVE-2023-54318-bb2a@gregkh/T