CVE-2023-54008 | virtio_vdpa: build affinity masks conditionally

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_vdpa: build affinity masks conditionally We try to build affinity mask via create_affinity_masks() unconditionally which may lead several issues: - the affinity mask is not used for parent without affinity support (only VDUSE support the affinity now) - the logic of create_affinity_masks() might not work for devices other than block. For example it's not rare in the networking device where the number of queues could exceed the number of CPUs. Such case breaks the current affinity logic which is based on group_cpus_evenly() who assumes the number of CPUs are not less than the number of groups. This can trigger a warning[1]: if (ret >= 0) WARN_ON(nr_present + nr_others < numgrps); Fixing this by only build the affinity masks only when - Driver passes affinity descriptor, driver like virtio-blk can make sure to limit the number of queues when it exceeds the number of CPUs - Parent support affinity setting config ops This help to avoid the warning. More optimizations could be done on top. [1] [ 682.146655] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 1550 at lib/group_cpus.c:400 group_cpus_evenly+0x1aa/0x1c0 [ 682.146668] CPU: 6 PID: 1550 Comm: vdpa Not tainted 6.5.0-rc5jason+ #79 [ 682.146671] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 682.146673] RIP: 0010:group_cpus_evenly+0x1aa/0x1c0 [ 682.146676] Code: 4c 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c3 cc cc cc cc e8 1b c4 74 ff 48 89 ef e8 13 ac 98 ff 4c 89 e7 45 31 e4 e8 08 ac 98 ff eb c2 <0f> 0b eb b6 e8 fd 05 c3 00 45 31 e4 eb e5 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc [ 682.146679] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000215f498 EFLAGS: 00010293 [ 682.146682] RAX: 000000000001f1e0 RBX: 0000000000000041 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 682.146684] RDX: ffff888109922058 RSI: 0000000000000041 RDI: 0000000000000030 [ 682.146686] RBP: ffff888109922058 R08: ffffc9000215f498 R09: ffffc9000215f4a0 [ 682.146687] R10: 00000000000198d0 R11: 0000000000000030 R12: ffff888107e02800 [ 682.146689] R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000041 [ 682.146692] FS: 00007fef52315740(0000) GS:ffff888237380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 682.146695] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 682.146696] CR2: 00007fef52509000 CR3: 0000000110dbc004 CR4: 0000000000370ee0 [ 682.146698] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 682.146700] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 682.146701] Call Trace: [ 682.146703] <TASK> [ 682.146705] ? __warn+0x7b/0x130 [ 682.146709] ? group_cpus_evenly+0x1aa/0x1c0 [ 682.146712] ? report_bug+0x1c8/0x1e0 [ 682.146717] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70 [ 682.146721] ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70 [ 682.146723] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 [ 682.146727] ? group_cpus_evenly+0x1aa/0x1c0 [ 682.146729] ? group_cpus_evenly+0x15c/0x1c0 [ 682.146731] create_affinity_masks+0xaf/0x1a0 [ 682.146735] virtio_vdpa_find_vqs+0x83/0x1d0 [ 682.146738] ? __pfx_default_calc_sets+0x10/0x10 [ 682.146742] virtnet_find_vqs+0x1f0/0x370 [ 682.146747] virtnet_probe+0x501/0xcd0 [ 682.146749] ? vp_modern_get_status+0x12/0x20 [ 682.146751] ? get_cap_addr.isra.0+0x10/0xc0 [ 682.146754] virtio_dev_probe+0x1af/0x260 [ 682.146759] really_probe+0x1a5/0x410

Published: 2025-12-24 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-54008 is rated Low Risk (3.1/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-54008

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# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-12-24 0.02%

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-54008

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-54008

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2023-54008 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-54008
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54008
suse medium CVE-2023-54008 severity moderate: SUSE including 399 source package names (2.1.3-6.115:kernel-default-base-6.4.0-39.1.21.16, 2.1.3-7.146:kernel-rt-6.4.0-40.1, …), 881 product×package rows across 166 product lines (Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/base-os-container, Container suse/sl-micro/6.0/kvm-os-container, … (166 product lines)): Fixed 414, Known Not Affected 236, Known Affected 231. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54008/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-54008 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 173, not-affected 139, released 83. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-54008

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-54008

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References for CVE-2023-54008

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