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Red Hat: CVE-2023-52811: kernel: scsi: ibmvfc: Remove BUG_ON in the case of an empty event pool (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-52811: kernel: scsi: ibmvfc: Remove BUG_ON in the case of an empty event pool (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/21/2024
Created
07/26/2024
Added
07/25/2024
Modified
09/25/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ibmvfc: Remove BUG_ON in the case of an empty event pool In practice the driver should never send more commands than are allocated to a queue's event pool. In the unlikely event that this happens, the code asserts a BUG_ON, and in the case that the kernel is not configured to crash on panic returns a junk event pointer from the empty event list causing things to spiral from there. This BUG_ON is a historical artifact of the ibmvfc driver first being upstreamed, and it is well known now that the use of BUG_ON is bad practice except in the most unrecoverable scenario. There is nothing about this scenario that prevents the driver from recovering and carrying on. Remove the BUG_ON in question from ibmvfc_get_event() and return a NULL pointer in the case of an empty event pool. Update all call sites to ibmvfc_get_event() to check for a NULL pointer and perfrom the appropriate failure or recovery action.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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