CVE: CVE-2023-54291
Published: 2025-12-30
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vduse: fix NULL pointer dereference

vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity callback can be called
with NULL value as cpu_mask when deleting the vduse
device.

This patch resets virtqueue's IRQ affinity mask value
to set all CPUs instead of dereferencing NULL cpu_mask.

[ 4760.952149] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 4760.959110] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 4760.964247] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 4760.969385] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 4760.971927] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 4760.976112] CPU: 13 PID: 2346 Comm: vdpa Not tainted 6.4.0-rc6+ #4
[ 4760.982291] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/0W23H8, BIOS 2.8.1 06/26/2020
[ 4760.989769] RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130
[ 4760.994049] Code: 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4f 08 4c 89 54 17 f0 4c 89 5c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 83 fa 08 72 1b <4c> 8b 06 4c 8b 4c 16 f8 4c 89 07 4c 89 4c 17 f8 c3 cc cc cc cc 66
[ 4761.012793] RSP: 0018:ffffb1d565abb830 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 4761.018020] RAX: ffff9f4bf6b27898 RBX: ffff9f4be23969c0 RCX: ffff9f4bcadf6400
[ 4761.025152] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: ffff9f4bf6b27898
[ 4761.032286] RBP: [PII_REDACTED] R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 4761.039416] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 4761.046549] R13: [PII_REDACTED] R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: ffffb1d565abbb10
[ 4761.053680] FS:  00007f64c2ec2740(0000) GS:ffff9f635f980000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
[ 4761.061765] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 4761.067513] CR2: [PII_REDACTED] CR3: [PII_REDACTED] CR4:[PII_REDACTED]7706e0
[ 4761.074645] DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 4761.081775] DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 4761.088909] PKRU: 55555554
[ 4761.091620] Call Trace:
[ 4761.094074]  <TASK>
[ 4761.096180]  ? __die+0x1f/0x70
[ 4761.099238]  ? page_fault_oops+0x171/0x4f0
[ 4761.103340]  ? exc_page_fault+0x7b/0x180
[ 4761.107265]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 4761.111460]  ? memcpy_orig+0xc5/0x130
[ 4761.115126]  vduse_vdpa_set_vq_affinity+0x3e/0x50 [vduse]
[ 4761.120533]  virtnet_clean_affinity.part.0+0x3d/0x90 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.126635]  remove_vq_common+0x1a4/0x250 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.131781]  virtnet_remove+0x5d/0x70 [virtio_net]
[ 4761.136580]  virtio_dev_remove+0x3a/0x90
[ 4761.140509]  device_release_driver_internal+0x19b/0x200
[ 4761.145742]  bus_remove_device+0xc2/0x130
[ 4761.149755]  device_del+0x158/0x3e0
[ 4761.153245]  ? kernfs_find_ns+0x35/0xc0
[ 4761.157086]  device_unregister+0x13/0x60
[ 4761.161010]  unregister_virtio_device+0x11/0x20
[ 4761.165543]  device_release_driver_internal+0x19b/0x200
[ 4761.170770]  bus_remove_device+0xc2/0x130
[ 4761.174782]  device_del+0x158/0x3e0
[ 4761.178276]  ? __pfx_vdpa_name_match+0x10/0x10 [vdpa]
[ 4761.183336]  device_unregister+0x13/0x60
[ 4761.187260]  vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_del_set_doit+0x63/0xe0 [vdpa]
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f06cf1e1a[PII_REDACTED]67d12d2ec89bf2c30ace7; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9d46429de2a251e1e4962e1bf86c344d6336562