CVE-2023-52578: net: bridge: use DEV_STATS_INC()

Description

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

net: bridge: use DEV_STATS_INC()

syzbot/KCSAN reported data-races in br_handle_frame_finish() [1]
This function can run from multiple cpus without mutual exclusion.

Adopt SMP safe DEV_STATS_INC() to update dev->stats fields.

Handles updates to dev->stats.tx_dropped while we are at it.

[1]
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in br_handle_frame_finish / br_handle_frame_finish

read-write to 0xffff8881374b2178 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1:
br_handle_frame_finish+0xd4f/0xef0 net/bridge/br_input.c:189
br_nf_hook_thresh+0x1ed/0x220
br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x50f/0x540
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:304 [inline]
br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x1e3/0x2a0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:178
br_nf_pre_routing+0x526/0xba0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:508
nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:144 [inline]
nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:272 [inline]
br_handle_frame+0x4c9/0x940 net/bridge/br_input.c:417
__netif_receive_skb_core+0xa8a/0x21e0 net/core/dev.c:5417
__netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5521 [inline]
__netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:5637
process_backlog+0x21f/0x380 net/core/dev.c:5965
__napi_poll+0x60/0x3b0 net/core/dev.c:6527
napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6594 [inline]
net_rx_action+0x32b/0x750 net/core/dev.c:6727
__do_softirq+0xc1/0x265 kernel/softirq.c:553
run_ksoftirqd+0x17/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:921
smpboot_thread_fn+0x30a/0x4a0 kernel/smpboot.c:164
kthread+0x1d7/0x210 kerne...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52578

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2346e6beb699909ca455d9d20c4e577ce900839
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad8d39c7b437fcdab7208a6a56c093d222c008d5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04cc361f029c14dd067ad180525c7392334c9bfd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc97117b51d68d5cea8f5351cca2d8c4153f394
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f9f20b1cbd36d99d5a248a4bf8d11d4fd049a2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2ef4cb4d418fa64fe73eb84d10cc5c0e52e00fa
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44bdb313da57322c9b3c108eb66981c6ec6509f4

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