Bug 2420364 (CVE-2023-53850) - CVE-2023-53850 kernel: iavf: use internal state to free traffic IRQs
Summary: CVE-2023-53850 kernel: iavf: use internal state to free traffic IRQs
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53850
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-12-09 02:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-16 15:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:05:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iavf: use internal state to free traffic IRQs

If the system tries to close the netdev while iavf_reset_task() is
running, __LINK_STATE_START will be cleared and netif_running() will
return false in iavf_reinit_interrupt_scheme(). This will result in
iavf_free_traffic_irqs() not being called and a leak as follows:

    [7632.489326] remove_proc_entry: removing non-empty directory 'irq/999', leaking at least 'iavf-enp24s0f0v0-TxRx-0'
    [7632.490214] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at fs/proc/generic.c:718 remove_proc_entry+0x19b/0x1b0

is shown when pci_disable_msix() is later called. Fix by using the
internal adapter state. The traffic IRQs will always exist if
state == __IAVF_RUNNING.


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