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.
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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. | |
Title | bnxt_en: Avoid order-5 memory allocation for TPA data | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2025-05-02T15:56:07.666Z
Updated: 2025-05-04T07:50:38.223Z
Reserved: 2025-05-02T15:51:43.561Z
Link: CVE-2023-53134

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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-05-02T16:15:32.353
Modified: 2025-05-05T20:54:19.760
Link: CVE-2023-53134
