CVE-2023-53134

bnxt_en: Avoid order-5 memory allocation for TPA data

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 2, 2025 at 03:56 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:44 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.1035.16 ≤ v < 6.1.205.4 ≤ v < 5.10.1755.4 ≤ v < 5.15.1035.4 ≤ v < 5.4.2375.4 ≤ v < 6.1.205.4 ≤ v < 6.2.75.4 ≤ v < 6.35.5 ≤ v < 5.10.1756.2 ≤ v < 6.2.75.46.3 rc179632e9ba38671215fb193346ef6fb8db582744d
Vendor states this is fixed in 16f3aae1aa2dd89bc8d073a67f190af580386ae9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 20fd0607acbf9770db9b99e3418dd75614f80b6c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in accd7e23693aaaa9aa0d3e9eca0ae77d1be80ab3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ad529d1fae1565d38f929479d4ea8aea90054bd2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d16701a385b54f44bf41ff1d7485e7a11080deb3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fcae40e65802547def39b4deaa2ae38a29864d81 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.175 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.103 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.237 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.20 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3 (unaffected)

References (6)

Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16f3aae1aa2dd89bc8d073a67f190af580386ae9
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20fd0607acbf9770db9b99e3418dd75614f80b6c
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/accd7e23693aaaa9aa0d3e9eca0ae77d1be80ab3
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad529d1fae1565d38f929479d4ea8aea90054bd2
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d16701a385b54f44bf41ff1d7485e7a11080deb3
Patch
Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcae40e65802547def39b4deaa2ae38a29864d81

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
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