Upstream information

CVE-2024-56623 at MITRE

Description

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix use after free on unload

System crash is observed with stack trace warning of use after
free. There are 2 signals to tell dpc_thread to terminate (UNLOADING
flag and kthread_stop).

On setting the UNLOADING flag when dpc_thread happens to run at the time
and sees the flag, this causes dpc_thread to exit and clean up
itself. When kthread_stop is called for final cleanup, this causes use
after free.

Remove UNLOADING signal to terminate dpc_thread. Use the kthread_stop
as the main signal to exit dpc_thread.

[596663.812935] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:294!
[596663.812950] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[596663.812957] CPU: 13 PID: 1475935 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G IOE --------- - - 4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64 #1
[596663.812960] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8, BIOS P70 08/20/2012
[596663.812974] RIP: 0010:__slab_free+0x17d/0x360

...
[596663.813008] Call Trace:
[596663.813022] ? __dentry_kill+0x121/0x170
[596663.813030] ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
[596663.813034] ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
[596663.813039] ? wait_for_completion+0x35/0x190
[596663.813048] ? try_to_wake_up+0x63/0x540
[596663.813055] free_task+0x5a/0x60
[596663.813061] kthread_stop+0xf3/0x100
[596663.813103] qla2x00_remove_one+0x284/0x440 [qla2xxx]

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1235466 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jan 8 18:00:31 2025
CVE page last modified: Wed Jan 8 18:00:31 2025