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CVE-2023-54225
published 2025-12-30

CVE-2023-54225: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipa: only reset hashed tables when supported Last year, the code that manages GSI…

PriorityP421
EPSS
0.17%
6.9th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipa: only reset hashed tables when supported Last year, the code that manages GSI channel transactions switched from using spinlock-protected linked lists to using indexes into the ring buffer used for a channel. Recently, Google reported seeing transaction reference count underflows occasionally during shutdown. Doug Anderson found a way to reproduce the issue reliably, and bisected the issue to the commit that eliminated the linked lists and the lock. The root cause was ultimately determined to be related to unused transactions being committed as part of the modem shutdown cleanup activity. Unused transactions are not normally expected (except in error cases). The modem uses some ranges of IPA-resident memory, and whenever it shuts down we zero those ranges. In ipa_filter_reset_table() a transaction is allocated to zero modem filter table entries. If hashing is not supported, hashed table memory should not be zeroed. But currently nothing prevents that, and the result is an unused transaction. Something similar occurs when we zero routing table entries for the modem. By preventing any attempt to clear hashed tables when hashing is not supported, the reference count underflow is avoided in this case. Note that there likely remains an issue with properly freeing unused transactions (if they occur due to errors). This patch addresses only the underflows that Google originally reported.

Affected

10 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= d338ae28d8a866c57fcac38f3d77bcc1d1702d19 < 50c24f0c940728792c8bdf65c1eaf6b91b3b0dcd50c24f0c940728792c8bdf65c1eaf6b91b3b0dcd
linuxlinux>= d338ae28d8a866c57fcac38f3d77bcc1d1702d19 < c00af3a818cc573e10100cc6770f0e47befa1fa4c00af3a818cc573e10100cc6770f0e47befa1fa4
linuxlinux>= d338ae28d8a866c57fcac38f3d77bcc1d1702d19 < e11ec2b868af2b351c6c1e2e50eb711cc5423a10e11ec2b868af2b351c6c1e2e50eb711cc5423a10
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.1.52-16.1.52-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.4.11-16.4.11-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.4.11-16.4.11-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.1.0 < 6.1.456.1.45
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.2.0 < 6.4.86.4.8
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