CVE-2023-53539

/// Technical description

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

RDMA/rxe: Fix incomplete state save in rxe_requester

If a send packet is dropped by the IP layer in rxe_requester()

the call to rxe_xmit_packet() can fail with err == -EAGAIN.

To recover, the state of the wqe is restored to the state before

the packet was sent so it can be resent. However, the routines

that save and restore the state miss a significnt part of the

variable state in the wqe, the dma struct which is used to process

through the sge table. And, the state is not saved before the packet

is built which modifies the dma struct.

Under heavy stress testing with many QPs on a fast node sending

large messages to a slow node dropped packets are observed and

the resent packets are corrupted because the dma struct was not

restored. This patch fixes this behavior and allows the test cases

to succeed.

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

/// References