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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
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Debian | 12 | all | linux | < 6.1.64-1 | linux_6.1.64-1_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | linux | <= 5.10.223-1 | linux_5.10.223-1_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | linux | < 6.6.8-1 | linux_6.6.8-1_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | linux | < 6.6.8-1 | linux_6.6.8-1_all.deb |