Bug 2402208 (CVE-2023-53627)

Summary: CVE-2023-53627 kernel: scsi: hisi_sas: Grab sas_dev lock when traversing the members of sas_dev.list
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A race condition was found in the Linux kernel HiSilicon SAS controller driver's task slot management. A local user with privileges to trigger SCSI operations can cause concurrent list operations where the completion queue thread deletes entries from sas_dev.list while the SCSI error handler traverses it without proper locking, which leads to dereferencing freed or NULL list pointers and results in denial of service via kernel panic or potentially memory corruption.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-07 16:02:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: hisi_sas: Grab sas_dev lock when traversing the members of sas_dev.list

When freeing slots in function slot_complete_v3_hw(), it is possible that
sas_dev.list is being traversed elsewhere, and it may trigger a NULL
pointer exception, such as follows:

==>cq thread                    ==>scsi_eh_6

                                ==>scsi_error_handler()
				  ==>sas_eh_handle_sas_errors()
				    ==>sas_scsi_find_task()
				      ==>lldd_abort_task()
==>slot_complete_v3_hw()              ==>hisi_sas_abort_task()
  ==>hisi_sas_slot_task_free()	        ==>dereg_device_v3_hw()
    ==>list_del_init()        		  ==>list_for_each_entry_safe()

[ 7165.434918] sas: Enter sas_scsi_recover_host busy: 32 failed: 32
[ 7165.434926] sas: trying to find task 0x00000000769b5ba5
[ 7165.434927] sas: sas_scsi_find_task: aborting task 0x00000000769b5ba5
[ 7165.434940] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(00000000769b5ba5) aborted
[ 7165.434964] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(00000000c9f7aa07) ignored
[ 7165.434965] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(00000000e2a1cf01) ignored
[ 7165.434968] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 7165.434972] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(0000000022d52d93) ignored
[ 7165.434975] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(0000000066a7516c) ignored
[ 7165.434976] Mem abort info:
[ 7165.434982]   ESR = 0x96000004
[ 7165.434991]   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 7165.434992]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 7165.434993]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 7165.434994] Data abort info:
[ 7165.434994]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 7165.434995]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 7165.434997] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 00000000f29543f2
[ 7165.434998] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000
[ 7165.435003] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
[ 7165.439863] Process scsi_eh_6 (pid: 4109, stack limit = 0x00000000c43818d5)
[ 7165.468862] pstate: 00c00009 (nzcv daif +PAN +UAO)
[ 7165.473637] pc : dereg_device_v3_hw+0x68/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.479443] lr : dereg_device_v3_hw+0x2c/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.485247] sp : ffff00001d623bc0
[ 7165.488546] x29: ffff00001d623bc0 x28: ffffa027d03b9508
[ 7165.493835] x27: ffff80278ed50af0 x26: ffffa027dd31e0a8
[ 7165.499123] x25: ffffa027d9b27f88 x24: ffffa027d9b209f8
[ 7165.504411] x23: ffffa027c45b0d60 x22: ffff80278ec07c00
[ 7165.509700] x21: 0000000000000008 x20: ffffa027d9b209f8
[ 7165.514988] x19: ffffa027d9b27f88 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 7165.520276] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
[ 7165.525564] x15: ffff0000091d9708 x14: ffff0000093b7dc8
[ 7165.530852] x13: ffff0000093b7a23 x12: 6e7265746e692067
[ 7165.536140] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000bb0
[ 7165.541429] x9 : ffff00001d6238f0 x8 : ffffa027d877af00
[ 7165.546718] x7 : ffffa027d6329600 x6 : ffff7e809f58ca00
[ 7165.552006] x5 : 0000000000001f8a x4 : 000000000000088e
[ 7165.557295] x3 : ffffa027d9b27fa8 x2 : 0000000000000000
[ 7165.562583] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 000000003000188e
[ 7165.567872] Call trace:
[ 7165.570309]  dereg_device_v3_hw+0x68/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.575775]  hisi_sas_abort_task+0x248/0x358 [hisi_sas_main]
[ 7165.581415]  sas_eh_handle_sas_errors+0x258/0x8e0 [libsas]
[ 7165.586876]  sas_scsi_recover_host+0x134/0x458 [libsas]
[ 7165.592082]  scsi_error_handler+0xb4/0x488
[ 7165.596163]  kthread+0x134/0x138
[ 7165.599380]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
[ 7165.602940] Code: d5033e9f b9000040 aa0103e2 eb03003f (f9400021)
[ 7165.609004] kernel fault(0x1) notification starting on CPU 75
[ 7165.700728] ---[ end trace fc042cbbea224efc ]---
[ 7165.705326] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

To fix the issue, grab sas_dev lock when traversing the members of
sas_dev.list in dereg_device_v3_hw() and hisi_sas_release_tasks() to avoid
concurrency of adding and deleting member. When 
---truncated---