CVE-2023-54247

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54247
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54247.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-54247
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-12-30T12:15:45Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:23Z
Summary
bpf: Silence a warning in btf_type_id_size()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Silence a warning in btf_type_id_size()

syzbot reported a warning in [1] with the following stacktrace: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5005 at kernel/bpf/btf.c:1988 btf_type_id_size+0x2d9/0x9d0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:1988 ... RIP: 0010:btf_type_id_size+0x2d9/0x9d0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:1988 ... Call Trace: map_check_btf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1024 [inline] map_create+0x1157/0x1860 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1198 __sys_bpf+0x127f/0x5420 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5040 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5162 [inline] __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5160 [inline] __x64_sys_bpf+0x79/0xc0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5160 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

With the following btf [1] DECL_TAG 'a' type_id=4 component_idx=-1 [2] PTR '(anon)' type_id=0 [3] TYPE_TAG 'a' type_id=2 [4] VAR 'a' type_id=3, linkage=static and when the bpf_attr.btf_key_type_id = 1 (DECL_TAG), the following WARN_ON_ONCE in btf_type_id_size() is triggered: if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!btf_type_is_modifier(size_type) && !btf_type_is_var(size_type))) return NULL;

Note that 'return NULL' is the correct behavior as we don't want a DECL_TAG type to be used as a btf_{key,value}_type_id even for the case like 'DECL_TAG -> STRUCT'. So there is no correctness issue here, we just want to silence warning.

To silence the warning, I added DECL_TAG as one of kinds in btf_type_nosize() which will cause btf_type_id_size() returning NULL earlier without the warning.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/000000000000e0df8d05fc75ba86@google.com/

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/54xxx/CVE-2023-54247.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b5ea834dde6b6e7f75e51d5f66dac8cd7c97b5ef
Fixed
61f4bd46a03a81865aca3bcbad2f7b7032fb3160
Fixed
7c4f5ab63e7962812505cbd38cc765168a223acb
Fixed
e6c2f594ed961273479505b42040782820190305

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54247.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.110
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.4.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54247.json"