CVE: CVE-2023-53627
Published: 2025-10-07
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: hisi_sas: Grab sas_dev lock when traversing the members of sas_dev.list

When freeing slots in function slot_complete_v3_hw(), it is possible that
sas_dev.list is being traversed elsewhere, and it may trigger a NULL
pointer exception, such as follows:

==>cq thread                    ==>scsi_eh_6

                                ==>scsi_error_handler()
				  ==>sas_eh_handle_sas_errors()
				    ==>sas_scsi_find_task()
				      ==>lldd_abort_task()
==>slot_complete_v3_hw()              ==>hisi_sas_abort_task()
  ==>hisi_sas_slot_task_free()	        ==>dereg_device_v3_hw()
    ==>list_del_init()        		  ==>list_for_each_entry_safe()

[ 7165.434918] sas: Enter sas_scsi_recover_host busy: 32 failed: 32
[ 7165.434926] sas: trying to find task 0x[PII_REDACTED]9b5ba5
[ 7165.434927] sas: sas_scsi_find_task: aborting task 0x[PII_REDACTED]9b5ba5
[ 7165.434940] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task[PII_REDACTED]9b5ba5) aborted
[ 7165.434964] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(00000000c9f7aa07) ignored
[ 7165.434965] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(00000000e2a1cf01) ignored
[ 7165.434968] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address [PII_REDACTED]
[ 7165.434972] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task[PII_REDACTED]d52d93) ignored
[ 7165.434975] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task[PII_REDACTED]a7516c) ignored
[ 7165.434976] Mem abort info:
[ 7165.434982]   ESR = 0x96000004
[ 7165.434991]   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 7165.434992]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 7165.434993]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 7165.434994] Data abort info:
[ 7165.434994]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 7165.434995]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 7165.434997] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 00000000f29543f2
[ 7165.434998] [[PII_REDACTED]] pgd=[PII_REDACTED]
[ 7165.435003] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
[ 7165.439863] Process scsi_eh_6 (pid: 4109, stack limit = 0x00000000c43818d5)
[ 7165.468862] pstate: 00c00009 (nzcv daif +PAN +UAO)
[ 7165.473637] pc : dereg_device_v3_hw+0x68/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.479443] lr : dereg_device_v3_hw+0x2c/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.485247] sp : ffff00001d623bc0
[ 7165.488546] x29: ffff00001d623bc0 x28: ffffa027d03b9508
[ 7165.493835] x27: ffff80278ed50af0 x26: ffffa027dd31e0a8
[ 7165.499123] x25: ffffa027d9b27f88 x24: ffffa027d9b209f8
[ 7165.504411] x23: ffffa027c45b0d60 x22: ffff80278ec07c00
[ 7165.509700] x21: [PII_REDACTED] x20: ffffa027d9b209f8
[ 7165.514988] x19: ffffa027d9b27f88 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 7165.520276] x17: [PII_REDACTED] x16: [PII_REDACTED]
[ 7165.525564] x15: ffff0000091d9708 x14: ffff0000093b7dc8
[ 7165.530852] x13: ffff0000093b7a23 x12: 6e7265746e692067
[ 7165.536140] x11: [PII_REDACTED] x10:[PII_REDACTED]000bb0
[ 7165.541429] x9 : ffff00001d6238f0 x8 : ffffa027d877af00
[ 7165.546718] x7 : ffffa027d6329600 x6 : ffff7e809f58ca00
[ 7165.552006] x5 :[PII_REDACTED]001f8a x4 :[PII_REDACTED]00088e
[ 7165.557295] x3 : ffffa027d9b27fa8 x2 : [PII_REDACTED]
[ 7165.562583] x1 : [PII_REDACTED] x0 :[PII_REDACTED]00188e
[ 7165.567872] Call trace:
[ 7165.570309]  dereg_device_v3_hw+0x68/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.575775]  hisi_sas_abort_task+0x248/0x358 [hisi_sas_main]
[ 7165.581415]  sas_eh_handle_sas_errors+0x258/0x8e0 [libsas]
[ 7165.586876]  sas_scsi_recover_host+0x134/0x458 [libsas]
[ 7165.592082]  scsi_error_handler+0xb4/0x488
[ 7165.596163]  kthread+0x134/0x138
[ 7165.599380]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
[ 7165.602940] Code: d5033e9f b9000040 aa0103e2 eb03003f (f9400021)
[ 7165.609004] kernel fault(0x1) notification starting on CPU 75
[ 7165.700728] ---[ end trace fc042cbbea224efc ]---
[ 7165.705326] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

To fix the issue, grab sas_dev lock when traversing the members of
sas_dev.list in dereg_device_v3_hw() and hisi_sas_release_tasks() to avoid
concurrency of adding and deleting member. When 
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-476
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e2a40b3a332ea84079983be21c944de8ddbc4f3; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71fb36b5ff113a7674710b9d6063241eada84ff7