Bug 2363370 (CVE-2022-49839)

Summary: CVE-2022-49839 kernel: scsi: scsi_transport_sas: Fix error handling in sas_phy_add()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:01:49 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: scsi_transport_sas: Fix error handling in sas_phy_add()

If transport_add_device() fails in sas_phy_add(), the kernel will crash
trying to delete the device in transport_remove_device() called from
sas_remove_host().

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000108
CPU: 61 PID: 42829 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W          6.1.0-rc1+ #173
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : device_del+0x54/0x3d0
lr : device_del+0x37c/0x3d0
Call trace:
 device_del+0x54/0x3d0
 attribute_container_class_device_del+0x28/0x38
 transport_remove_classdev+0x6c/0x80
 attribute_container_device_trigger+0x108/0x110
 transport_remove_device+0x28/0x38
 sas_phy_delete+0x30/0x60 [scsi_transport_sas]
 do_sas_phy_delete+0x6c/0x80 [scsi_transport_sas]
 device_for_each_child+0x68/0xb0
 sas_remove_children+0x40/0x50 [scsi_transport_sas]
 sas_remove_host+0x20/0x38 [scsi_transport_sas]
 hisi_sas_remove+0x40/0x68 [hisi_sas_main]
 hisi_sas_v2_remove+0x20/0x30 [hisi_sas_v2_hw]
 platform_remove+0x2c/0x60

Fix this by checking and handling return value of transport_add_device()
in sas_phy_add().
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 05:57:43 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050139-CVE-2022-49839-37b0@gregkh/T