Bug 2395874 (CVE-2022-50350) - CVE-2022-50350 kernel: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix a race condition between login_work and the login thread
Summary: CVE-2022-50350 kernel: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix a race condition between logi...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50350
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-16 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-16 18:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-16 17:03:25 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: target: iscsi: Fix a race condition between login_work and the login thread

In case a malicious initiator sends some random data immediately after a
login PDU; the iscsi_target_sk_data_ready() callback will schedule the
login_work and, at the same time, the negotiation may end without clearing
the LOGIN_FLAGS_INITIAL_PDU flag (because no additional PDU exchanges are
required to complete the login).

The login has been completed but the login_work function will find the
LOGIN_FLAGS_INITIAL_PDU flag set and will never stop from rescheduling
itself; at this point, if the initiator drops the connection, the
iscsit_conn structure will be freed, login_work will dereference a released
socket structure and the kernel crashes.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000230
PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
Workqueue: events iscsi_target_do_login_rx [iscsi_target_mod]
RIP: 0010:_raw_read_lock_bh+0x15/0x30
Call trace:
 iscsi_target_do_login_rx+0x75/0x3f0 [iscsi_target_mod]
 process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0

Fix this bug by forcing login_work to stop after the login has been
completed and the socket callbacks have been restored.

Add a comment to clearify the return values of iscsi_target_do_login()


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