CVE-2021-47192

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.4.143-5.4.161 - Denial of Service via SCSI Device State Deadlock

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: sysfs: Fix hang when device state is set via sysfs This fixes a regression added with: commit f0f82e2476f6 ("scsi: core: Fix capacity set to zero after offlinining device") The problem is that after iSCSI recovery, iscsid will call into the kernel to set the dev's state to running, and with that patch we now call scsi_rescan_device() with the state_mutex held. If the SCSI error handler thread is just starting to test the device in scsi_send_eh_cmnd() then it's going to try to grab the state_mutex. We are then stuck, because when scsi_rescan_device() tries to send its I/O scsi_queue_rq() calls -> scsi_host_queue_ready() -> scsi_host_in_recovery() which will return true (the host state is still in recovery) and I/O will just be requeued. scsi_send_eh_cmnd() will then never be able to grab the state_mutex to finish error handling. To prevent the deadlock move the rescan-related code to after we drop the state_mutex. This also adds a check for if we are already in the running state. This prevents extra scans and helps the iscsid case where if the transport class has already onlined the device during its recovery process then we don't need userspace to do it again plus possibly block that daemon.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0061
EPSS Percentile 44.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (16)
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.10.61 - 5.10.82
Linux/Linux 5.10.82 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.13.13 - 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.15.5 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 5.4.143 - 5.4.162
Linux/Linux 5.4.162 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 69aa1a1a569f5c6d554b59352130ef363342ed4c - edd783162bf2385b43de6764f2d4c6e9f4f6be27
... and 6 more
Published Apr 10, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026