Bug 2313085 (CVE-2024-46737)

Summary: CVE-2024-46737 kernel: nvmet-tcp: fix kernel crash if commands allocation fails
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-18 08:21:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvmet-tcp: fix kernel crash if commands allocation fails

If the commands allocation fails in nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmds()
the kernel crashes in nvmet_tcp_release_queue_work() because of
a NULL pointer dereference.

  nvmet: failed to install queue 0 cntlid 1 ret 6
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
         virtual address 0000000000000008

Fix the bug by setting queue->nr_cmds to zero in case
nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmd() fails.