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.
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History
Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:30:00 +0000
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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First Time appeared |
Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
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CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
Vendors & Products |
Linux
Linux linux Kernel |
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0000
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4 |
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:30:00 +0000
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:15:00 +0000
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Metrics |
ssvc
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Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:15:00 +0000
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8 |
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:15:00 +0000
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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First Time appeared |
Redhat enterprise Linux
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 |
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Vendors & Products |
Redhat enterprise Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-05-21T15:31:20.282Z
Updated: 2025-05-04T07:43:38.190Z
Reserved: 2024-05-21T15:19:24.248Z
Link: CVE-2023-52811

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:11:35.895Z

Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-05-21T16:15:19.347
Modified: 2025-04-02T15:00:51.627
Link: CVE-2023-52811
