Bug 2363767 (CVE-2023-53140)

Summary: CVE-2023-53140 kernel: scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier
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 2025-05-02 16:04:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: core: Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier

Remove the /proc/scsi/${proc_name} directory earlier to fix a race
condition between unloading and reloading kernel modules. This fixes a bug
introduced in 2009 by commit 77c019768f06 ("[SCSI] fix /proc memory leak in
the SCSI core").

Fix the following kernel warning:

proc_dir_entry 'scsi/scsi_debug' already registered
WARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 27986 at fs/proc/generic.c:376 proc_register+0x27d/0x2e0
Call Trace:
 proc_mkdir+0xb5/0xe0
 scsi_proc_hostdir_add+0xb5/0x170
 scsi_host_alloc+0x683/0x6c0
 sdebug_driver_probe+0x6b/0x2d0 [scsi_debug]
 really_probe+0x159/0x540
 __driver_probe_device+0xdc/0x230
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x120
 __device_attach_driver+0xef/0x180
 bus_for_each_drv+0xe5/0x130
 __device_attach+0x127/0x290
 device_initial_probe+0x17/0x20
 bus_probe_device+0x110/0x130
 device_add+0x673/0xc80
 device_register+0x1e/0x30
 sdebug_add_host_helper+0x1a7/0x3b0 [scsi_debug]
 scsi_debug_init+0x64f/0x1000 [scsi_debug]
 do_one_initcall+0xd7/0x470
 do_init_module+0xe7/0x330
 load_module+0x122a/0x12c0
 __do_sys_finit_module+0x124/0x1a0
 __x64_sys_finit_module+0x46/0x50
 do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 05:17:23 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050238-CVE-2023-53140-a5f2@gregkh/T