CVE: CVE-2022-49789
Published: 2025-05-01
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: zfcp: Fix double free of FSF request when qdio send fails

We used to use the wrong type of integer in 'zfcp_fsf_req_send()' to cache
the FSF request ID when sending a new FSF request. This is used in case the
sending fails and we need to remove the request from our internal hash
table again (so we don't keep an invalid reference and use it when we free
the request again).

In 'zfcp_fsf_req_send()' we used to cache the ID as 'int' (signed and 32
bit wide), but the rest of the zfcp code (and the firmware specification)
handles the ID as 'unsigned long'/'u64' (unsigned and 64 bit wide [s390x
ELF ABI]).  For one this has the obvious problem that when the ID grows
past 32 bit (this can happen reasonably fast) it is truncated to 32 bit
when storing it in the cache variable and so doesn't match the original ID
anymore.  The second less obvious problem is that even when the original ID
has not yet grown past 32 bit, as soon as the 32nd bit is set in the
original ID (0x80000000 = 2'147'483'648) we will have a mismatch when we
cast it back to 'unsigned long'. As the cached variable is of a signed
type, the compiler will choose a sign-extending instruction to load the 32
bit variable into a 64 bit register (e.g.: 'lgf %r11,188(%r15)'). So once
we pass the cached variable into 'zfcp_reqlist_find_rm()' to remove the
request again all the leading zeros will be flipped to ones to extend the
sign and won't match the original ID anymore (this has been observed in
practice).

If we can't successfully remove the request from the hash table again after
'zfcp_qdio_send()' fails (this happens regularly when zfcp cannot notify
the adapter about new work because the adapter is already gone during
e.g. a ChpID toggle) we will end up with a double free.  We unconditionally
free the request in the calling function when 'zfcp_fsf_req_send()' fails,
but because the request is still in the hash table we end up with a stale
memory reference, and once the zfcp adapter is either reset during recovery
or shutdown we end up freeing the same memory twice.

The resulting stack traces vary depending on the kernel and have no direct
correlation to the place where the bug occurs. Here are three examples that
have been seen in practice:

  list_del corruption. next->prev should be 00000001b9d13800, but was 00000000dead4ead. (next=00000001bd131a00)
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62!
  monitor event: 0040 ilc:2 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in: ...
  CPU: 9 PID: 1617 Comm: zfcperp0.0.1740 Kdump: loaded
  Hardware name: ...
  Krnl PSW : 0704d[PII_REDACTED]0 00000003cbeea1f8 (__list_del_entry_valid+0x98/0x140)
             R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
  Krnl GPRS:[PII_REDACTED]6d12f1 [PII_REDACTED][PII_REDACTED]00006d 00000003cb665cd6
             [PII_REDACTED] [PII_REDACTED] [PII_REDACTED] 00000000d28d21e8
             00000000d3[PII_REDACTED]0380099efd28 00000001bd131a00 00000001b9d13800
             00000000d3290100 [PII_REDACTED] 00000003cbeea1f4[PII_REDACTED]9efc70
  Krnl Code: 00000003cbeea1e8: c020004f68a7        larl    %r2,00000003cc8d7336
             00000003cbeea1ee: c0e50027fd65        brasl   %r14,00000003cc3e9cb8
            #00000003cbeea1f4: af000000            mc      0,0
            >00000003cbeea1f8: c[PII_REDACTED]0        larl    %r2,00000003cd12aa78
             00000003cbeea1fe: c0e500289c25        brasl   %r14,00000003cc3fda48
             00000003cbeea204: b9040043            lgr     %r4,%r3
             00000003cbeea208: b9040051            lgr     %r5,%r1
             00000003cbeea20c: b9040032            lgr     %r3,%r2
  Call Trace:
   [<00000003cbeea1f8>] __list_del_entry_valid+0x98/0x140
  ([<00000003cbeea1f4>] __list_del_entry_valid+0x94/0x140)
   [<000003ff7ff502fe>] zfcp_fsf_req_dismiss_all+0xde/0x150 [zfcp]
   [<000003ff7ff49cd0>] zfcp_erp_strategy_do_action+0x160/0x280 [zfcp]
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 7.8 (HIGH)
CWE: CWE-415
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0954256e970ecf371b03a6c9af2cf91b9c4085ff; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11edbdee4399401f533adda9bffe94567aa08b96; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bf8ed585501bb2dd0b5f67c824eab45adfbdccd