Bug 2378975 (CVE-2025-38238)

Summary:	CVE-2025-38238 kernel: scsi: fnic: Fix crash in fnic_wq_cmpl_handler when FDMI times out
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-09 11:01:16 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: fnic: Fix crash in fnic_wq_cmpl_handler when FDMI times out

When both the RHBA and RPA FDMI requests time out, fnic reuses a frame to
send ABTS for each of them. On send completion, this causes an attempt to
free the same frame twice that leads to a crash.

Fix crash by allocating separate frames for RHBA and RPA, and modify ABTS
logic accordingly.

Tested by checking MDS for FDMI information.

Tested by using instrumented driver to:

 - Drop PLOGI response
 - Drop RHBA response
 - Drop RPA response
 - Drop RHBA and RPA response
 - Drop PLOGI response + ABTS response
 - Drop RHBA response + ABTS response
 - Drop RPA response + ABTS response
 - Drop RHBA and RPA response + ABTS response for both of them

Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-07-09 17:57:39 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070930-CVE-2025-38238-dae2@gregkh/T