vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-53660: Important priority package update for kernel

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 7, 2025
Added
Oct 24, 2025
Modified
Oct 24, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, cpumap: Handle skb as well when clean up ptr_ring
The following warning was reported when running xdp_redirect_cpu with
both skb-mode and stress-mode enabled:
------------[ cut here ]------------
Incorrect XDP memory type (-2128176192) usage
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1442 at net/core/xdp.c:405
Modules linked in:
CPU: 7 PID: 1442 Comm: kworker/7:0 Tainted: G 6.5.0-rc2+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Workqueue: events __cpu_map_entry_free
RIP: 0010:__xdp_return+0x1e4/0x4a0
......
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_regs+0x65/0x70
? __warn+0xa5/0x240
? __xdp_return+0x1e4/0x4a0
......
xdp_return_frame+0x4d/0x150
__cpu_map_entry_free+0xf9/0x230
process_one_work+0x6b0/0xb80
worker_thread+0x96/0x720
kthread+0x1a5/0x1f0
ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x70
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
</TASK>
The reason for the warning is twofold. One is due to the kthread
cpu_map_kthread_run() is stopped prematurely. Another one is
__cpu_map_ring_cleanup() doesn't handle skb mode and treats skbs in
ptr_ring as XDP frames.
Prematurely-stopped kthread will be fixed by the preceding patch and
ptr_ring will be empty when __cpu_map_ring_cleanup() is called. But
as the comments in __cpu_map_ring_cleanup() said, handling and freeing
skbs in ptr_ring as well to "catch any broken behaviour gracefully".

Solutions

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