Bug 2315194 (CVE-2024-46842) - CVE-2024-46842 kernel: scsi: lpfc: Handle mailbox timeouts in lpfc_get_sfp_info
Summary: CVE-2024-46842 kernel: scsi: lpfc: Handle mailbox timeouts in lpfc_get_sfp_info
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-46842
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2315264
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-09-27 13:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-09-27 18:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-27 13:22:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: lpfc: Handle mailbox timeouts in lpfc_get_sfp_info

The MBX_TIMEOUT return code is not handled in lpfc_get_sfp_info and the
routine unconditionally frees submitted mailbox commands regardless of
return status.  The issue is that for MBX_TIMEOUT cases, when firmware
returns SFP information at a later time, that same mailbox memory region
references previously freed memory in its cmpl routine.

Fix by adding checks for the MBX_TIMEOUT return code.  During mailbox
resource cleanup, check the mbox flag to make sure that the wait did not
timeout.  If the MBOX_WAKE flag is not set, then do not free the resources
because it will be freed when firmware completes the mailbox at a later
time in its cmpl routine.

Also, increase the timeout from 30 to 60 seconds to accommodate boot
scripts requiring longer timeouts.


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