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mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Fix memory corruptions on Spectrum-4 systems

Published Jul 29, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: kernel Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-6.8 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-6.8 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-6.8 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-6.8 Package: linux-nvidia-lowlatency Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-oracle-6.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-riscv-6.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Azure Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Fix memory corruptions on Spectrum-4 systems

The following two shared buffer operations make use of the Shared Buffer
Status Register (SBSR):

# devlink sb occupancy snapshot pci/0000:01:00.0
# devlink sb occupancy clearmax pci/0000:01:00.0

The register has two masks of 256 bits to denote on which ingress /
egress ports the register should operate on. Spectrum-4 has more than
256 ports, so the register was extended by cited commit with a new
'port_page' field.

However, when filling the register's payload, the driver specifies the
ports as absolute numbers and not relative to the first port of the port
page, resulting in memory corruptions [1].

Fix by specifying the ports relative to the first port of the port page.

[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mlxsw_sp_sb_occ_snapshot+0xb6d/0xbc0
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881068cb00f by task devlink/1566
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xc6/0x120
print_report+0xce/0x670
kasan_report+0xd7/0x110
mlxsw_sp_sb_occ_snapshot+0xb6d/0xbc0
mlxsw_devlink_sb_occ_snapshot+0x75/0xb0
devlink_nl_sb_occ_snapshot_doit+0x1f9/0x2a0
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x20c/0x300
genl_rcv_msg+0x567/0x800
netlink_rcv_skb+0x170/0x450
genl_rcv+0x2d/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x547/0x830
netlink_sendmsg+0x8d4/0xdb0
__sys_sendto+0x49b/0x510
__x64_sys_sendto+0xe5/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
[...]
Allocated by task 1:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
copy_verifier_state+0xbc2/0xfb0
do_check_common+0x2c51/0xc7e0
bpf_check+0x5107/0x9960
bpf_prog_load+0xf0e/0x2690
__sys_bpf+0x1a61/0x49d0
__x64_sys_bpf+0x7d/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 1:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
poison_slab_object+0x109/0x170
__kasan_slab_free+0x14/0x30
kfree+0xca/0x2b0
free_verifier_state+0xce/0x270
do_check_common+0x4828/0xc7e0
bpf_check+0x5107/0x9960
bpf_prog_load+0xf0e/0x2690
__sys_bpf+0x1a61/0x49d0
__x64_sys_bpf+0x7d/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.17 6.1.97

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.9.8-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.9.8-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.98-1 —
Debian 11 linux-6.1 6.1.119-1~deb11u1 DLA-4008-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-48.48 USN-7089-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1018.20 USN-7089-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure 6.8.0-1017.20 USN-7089-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp +1 6.8.0-1017.19 USN-7095-1, USN-7089-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1013.17 USN-7089-6
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1002.4 USN-7156-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm 6.8.0-1015.15 USN-7089-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-48.48.3 USN-7089-7
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1017.19.1 USN-7095-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.8 6.8.0-1016.16 USN-7089-4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle 6.8.0-1015.16 USN-7089-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1014.16 USN-7089-5
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv 6.8.0-48.48.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1018.19~22.04.1 USN-7089-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1017.20~22.04.1 USN-7090-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 +1 6.8.0-1017.19~22.04.1 USN-7095-1, USN-7089-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-48.48~22.04.1 USN-7089-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-48.48.3~22.04.1 USN-7089-7
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1015.15~22.04.1 USN-7089-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-48.48.1~22.04.2 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2013.14 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1011.11 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-64kb +6 6.4.0-150600.23.22.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.11.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3194-1
SLES 15 SP6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.22.1.150600.12.8.3 SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-17.1.1.51 SUSE-SU-2025:20044-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_2 +1 1-1.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20047-1, SUSE-SU-2025:20044-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-rt +1 6.4.0-10.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20047-1
SLE Micro 6.0 kernel-source +2 6.4.0-19.1 SUSE-SU-2025:20044-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-default 6.4.0-150600.23.22.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6-RT_Update_2 1-150600.1.3.2 SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP6 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP6_Update_4 1-150600.13.3.3 SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150600.10.8.3 SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP6 kernel-syms-rt 6.4.0-150600.10.8.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.6 dtb-aarch64 +10 6.4.0-150600.23.22.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150600.8.11.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3194-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150600.23.22.1.150600.12.8.3 SUSE-SU-2024:3383-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150600.10.8.3 SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 kernel-syms-rt 6.4.0-150600.10.8.1 SUSE-SU-2024:3195-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kernel 6.6.43.1-7 —
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) kernel 5.15.162.2-1 —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 8 bpftool +13 5.15.0-305.176.4.el9uek ELSA-2025-20095

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