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Red Hat: CVE-2021-47503: kernel: scsi: pm80xx: Do not call scsi_remove_host() in pm8001_alloc()

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 24, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

scsi: pm80xx: Do not call scsi_remove_host() in pm8001_alloc()

Calling scsi_remove_host() before scsi_add_host() results in a crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000108
RIP: 0010:device_del+0x63/0x440
Call Trace:
device_unregister+0x17/0x60
scsi_remove_host+0xee/0x2a0
pm8001_pci_probe+0x6ef/0x1b90 [pm80xx]
local_pci_probe+0x3f/0x90

We cannot call scsi_remove_host() in pm8001_alloc() because scsi_add_host()
has not been called yet at that point in time.

Function call tree:

pm8001_pci_probe()
|
`- pm8001_pci_alloc()
| |
| `- pm8001_alloc()
| |
| `- scsi_remove_host()
|
`- scsi_add_host()

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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