CVE-2023-54302 RDMA/irdma: Fix data race on CQP completion stats
A data race in the Linux kernel's irdma driver can cause inconsistent statistics and potential logic bugs, requiring a kernel patch.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-54302?
CVE-2023-54302 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/irdma: Fix data race on CQP completion stats
CQP completion statistics is read lockesly in irdma_wait_event and irdma_check_cqp_progress while it can be updated in the completion thread irdma_sc_ccq_get_cqe_info on another CPU as KCSAN reports.
Make completion statistics an atomic variable to reflect coherent updates to it. This will also avoid load/store tearing logic bug potentially possible by compiler optimizations.
[77346.170861] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in irdma_handle_cqp_op [irdma] / irdma_sc_ccq_get_cqe_info [irdma]
[77346.171383] write to 0xffff8a3250b108e0 of 8 bytes by task 9544 on cpu 4: [77346.171483] irdma_sc_ccq_get_cqe_info+0x27a/0x370 [irdma] [77346.171658] irdma_cqp_ce_handler+0x164/0x270 [irdma] [77346.171835] cqp_compl_worker+0x1b/0x20 [irdma] [77346.172009] process_one_work+0x4d1/0xa40 [77346.172024] worker_thread+0x319/0x700 [77346.172037] kthread+0x180/0x1b0 [77346.172054] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[77346.172136] read to 0xffff8a3250b108e0 of 8 bytes by task 9838 on cpu 2: [77346.172234] irdma_handle_cqp_op+0xf4/0x4b0 [irdma] [77346.172413] irdma_cqp_aeq_cmd+0x75/0xa0 [irdma] [77346.172592] irdma_create_aeq+0x390/0x45a [irdma] [77346.172769] irdma_rt_init_hw.cold+0x212/0x85d [irdma] [77346.172944] irdma_probe+0x54f/0x620 [irdma] [77346.173122] auxiliary_bus_probe+0x66/0xa0 [77346.173137] really_probe+0x140/0x540 [77346.173154] __driver_probe_device+0xc7/0x220 [77346.173173] driver_probe_device+0x5f/0x140 [77346.173190] __driver_attach+0xf0/0x2c0 [77346.173208] bus_for_each_dev+0xa8/0xf0 [77346.173225] driver_attach+0x29/0x30 [77346.173240] bus_add_driver+0x29c/0x2f0 [77346.173255] driver_register+0x10f/0x1a0 [77346.173272] __auxiliary_driver_register+0xbc/0x140 [77346.173287] irdma_init_module+0x55/0x1000 [irdma] [77346.173460] do_one_initcall+0x7d/0x410 [77346.173475] do_init_module+0x81/0x2c0 [77346.173491] load_module+0x1232/0x12c0 [77346.173506] __do_sys_finit_module+0x101/0x180 [77346.173522] __x64_sys_finit_module+0x3c/0x50 [77346.173538] do_syscall_64+0x39/0x90 [77346.173553] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[77346.173634] value changed: 0x0000000000000094 -> 0x0000000000000095
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-54302?
How do I fix CVE-2023-54302?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2023-54302 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54302 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-54302, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54302, GHSA-h862-m8hq-w46v, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54302.