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CVE-2023-54247

UNKNOWN 0.0

bpf: Silence a warning in btf_type_id_size()

CVSS Score
0.0
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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: <TASK> 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/[email protected]/

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Published Dec 30, 2025
Last Updated May 11, 2026
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
b5ea834dde6b6e7f75e51d5f66dac8cd7c97b5ef < 61f4bd46a03a81865aca3bcbad2f7b7032fb3160 b5ea834dde6b6e7f75e51d5f66dac8cd7c97b5ef < 7c4f5ab63e7962812505cbd38cc765168a223acb b5ea834dde6b6e7f75e51d5f66dac8cd7c97b5ef < e6c2f594ed961273479505b42040782820190305
Linux / Linux
5.16

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61f4bd46a03a81865aca3bcbad2f7b7032fb3160 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c4f5ab63e7962812505cbd38cc765168a223acb git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6c2f594ed961273479505b42040782820190305