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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2023-53134

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/02/2025 12:15:32 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

bnxt_en: Avoid order-5 memory allocation for TPA data

The driver needs to keep track of all the possible concurrent TPA (GRO/LRO)
completions on the aggregation ring.  On P5 chips, the maximum number
of concurrent TPA is 256 and the amount of memory we allocate is order-5
on systems using 4K pages.  Memory allocation failure has been reported:

NetworkManager: page allocation failure: order:5, mode:0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1
CPU: 15 PID: 2995 Comm: NetworkManager Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.10.156 #1
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R660/0M1CC5, BIOS 0.2.25 08/12/2022
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x57/0x6e
 warn_alloc.cold.120+0x7b/0xdd
 ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
 ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x15f/0x170
 __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.108+0xc58/0xc70
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2d0/0x300
 kmalloc_order+0x24/0xe0
 kmalloc_order_trace+0x19/0x80
 bnxt_alloc_mem+0x1150/0x15c0 [bnxt_en]
 ? bnxt_get_func_stat_ctxs+0x13/0x60 [bnxt_en]
 __bnxt_open_nic+0x12e/0x780 [bnxt_en]
 bnxt_open+0x10b/0x240 [bnxt_en]
 __dev_open+0xe9/0x180
 __dev_change_flags+0x1af/0x220
 dev_change_flags+0x21/0x60
 do_setlink+0x35c/0x1100

Instead of allocating this big chunk of memory and dividing it up for the
concurrent TPA instances, allocate each small chunk separately for each
TPA instance.  This will reduce it to order-0 allocations.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16f3aae1aa2dd89bc8d073a67f190af580386ae9
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20fd0607acbf9770db9b99e3418dd75614f80b6c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/accd7e23693aaaa9aa0d3e9eca0ae77d1be80ab3
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad529d1fae1565d38f929479d4ea8aea90054bd2
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d16701a385b54f44bf41ff1d7485e7a11080deb3
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcae40e65802547def39b4deaa2ae38a29864d81