Bug 2339139 (CVE-2025-21656) - CVE-2025-21656 kernel: hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur
Summary: CVE-2025-21656 kernel: hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data w...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21656
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-01-21 13:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-01-21 16:50 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-01-21 13:02:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur

scsi_execute_cmd() function can return both negative (linux codes) and
positive (scsi_cmnd result field) error codes.

Currently the driver just passes error codes of scsi_execute_cmd() to
hwmon core, which is incorrect because hwmon only checks for negative
error codes. This leads to hwmon reporting uninitialized data to
userspace in case of SCSI errors (for example if the disk drive was
disconnected).

This patch checks scsi_execute_cmd() output and returns -EIO if it's
error code is positive.

[groeck: Avoid inline variable declaration for portability]


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