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

net/mlx5e: Fix publication race for priv->channel_stats[]

mlx5e_channel_stats_alloc() publishes a new entry to
priv->channel_stats[] and then increments priv->stats_nch as a
publication token, but neither store carries any memory barrier:

	priv->channel_stats[ix] = kvzalloc_node(...);
	if (!priv->channel_stats[ix])
		return -ENOMEM;
	priv->stats_nch++;

Concurrent readers compute the loop bound from priv->stats_nch and
then dereference priv->channel_stats[i] using plain accesses, e.g.

	for (i = 0; i < priv->stats_nch; i++) {
		struct mlx5e_channel_stats *cs = priv->channel_stats[i];
		... cs->rq.packets ...
	}

On weakly-ordered architectures (ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V) the writes to
channel_stats[ix] and stats_nch may become visible to other CPUs out
of program order. A reader can observe stats_nch == N while still
seeing channel_stats[N-1] == NULL, leading to a NULL pointer
dereference in the channel_stats loop.

This has been observed in production on BlueField-3 DPUs (arm64),
where ovs-vswitchd queries netdev statistics over netlink during NIC
bringup, racing mlx5e_open_channel() -> mlx5e_channel_stats_alloc()
on another CPU:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0x840
  Hardware name: BlueField-3 DPU
  pc : mlx5e_fold_sw_stats64+0x30/0x180 [mlx5_core]
  Call trace:
   mlx5e_fold_sw_stats64+0x30/0x180 [mlx5_core]
   dev_get_stats+0x50/0xc0
   ovs_vport_get_stats+0x38/0xac [openvswitch]
   ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info+0x194/0x290 [openvswitch]
   ovs_vport_cmd_get+0xbc/0x10c [openvswitch]
   genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xd0/0x160
   genl_rcv_msg+0xec/0x1f0
   netlink_rcv_skb+0x64/0x130
   genl_rcv+0x40/0x60
   netlink_unicast+0x2fc/0x370
   netlink_sendmsg+0x1dc/0x454
   ...
   __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x2c/0x40

Add mlx5e_stats_nch_write() and mlx5e_stats_nch_read() helpers in en.h
that wrap the smp_store_release()/smp_load_acquire() pair on stats_nch.
The release/acquire pair establishes the contract:

  stats_nch == N  =>  channel_stats[0..N-1] are visible and non-NULL.

Publish the stats_nch increment via mlx5e_stats_nch_write() in the
writer (mlx5e_channel_stats_alloc()), and read stats_nch via
mlx5e_stats_nch_read() in all readers: mlx5e RX/TX queue stats,
mlx5e_get_base_stats(), ethtool channels stats, IPoIB stats, the
sw_stats fold and the HV VHCA stats agent.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a799714e8ca0bce9ea40694f49914cf1adbbaa9

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c7e3755abf663f033de24f917b77685e9543045

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/815515ec68f527ca755cb1e2c1ff9148f6b3ea56

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