CVE-2022-49160

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash during module load unload test

During purex packet handling the driver was incorrectly freeing a pre-allocated structure. Fix this by skipping that entry.

System crashed with the following stack during a module unload test.

Call Trace: sbitmap_init_node+0x7f/0x1e0 sbitmap_queue_init_node+0x24/0x150 blk_mq_init_bitmaps+0x3d/0xa0 blk_mq_init_tags+0x68/0x90 blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs+0x44/0x120 blk_mq_alloc_set_map_and_rqs+0x63/0x150 blk_mq_alloc_tag_set+0x11b/0x230 scsi_add_host_with_dma.cold+0x3f/0x245 qla2x00_probe_one+0xd5a/0x1b80 [qla2xxx]

Call Trace with slub_debug and debug kernel: kasan_report_invalid_free+0x50/0x80 __kasan_slab_free+0x137/0x150 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc6/0x190 kfree+0xe8/0x2e0 qla2x00_free_device+0x3bb/0x5d0 [qla2xxx] qla2x00_remove_one+0x668/0xcf0 [qla2xxx]

This vulnerability is rated as having a Moderate impact because exploitation requires local access on systems equipped with QLogic Fibre Channel hardware, with the blast radius limited to a denial of service through a kernel crash. The issue occurs within the qla2xxx SCSI driver when handling purex packets during module operations. Systems not utilizing QLogic Host Bus Adapters do not load this driver and are not exposed to this risk.

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