scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info()
CVE: CVE-2025-40115
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-416
Severity: Moderate
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2025-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

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

scsi: mpt3sas: Fix crash in transport port remove by using ioc_info()

During mpt3sas_transport_port_remove(), messages were logged with
dev_printk() against &mpt3sas_port->port->dev. At this point the SAS
transport device may already be partially unregistered or freed, leading
to a crash when accessing its struct device.

Using ioc_info(), which logs via the PCI device (ioc->pdev->dev),
guaranteed to remain valid until driver removal.

[83428.295776] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x6f702f323a33312d: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[83428.295785] CPU: 145 UID: 0 PID: 113296 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE       6.16.0-rc1+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[83428.295792] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
[83428.295795] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision 7875 Tower/, BIOS 89.1.67 02/23/2024
[83428.295799] RIP: 0010:__dev_printk+0x1f/0x70
[83428.295805] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 d1 48 85 f6 74 52 4c 8b 46 50 4d 85 c0 74 1f 48 8b 46 68 48 85 c0 74 22 <48> 8b 08 0f b6 7f 01 48 c7 c2 db e8 42 ad 83 ef 30 e9 7b f8 ff ff
[83428.295813] RSP: 0018:ff85aeafc3137bb0 EFLAGS: 00010206
[83428.295817] RAX: 6f702f323a33312d RBX: ff4290ee81292860 RCX: 5000cca25103be32
[83428.295820] RDX: ff85aeafc3137bb8 RSI: ff4290eeb1966c00 RDI: ffffffffc1560845
[83428.295823] RBP: ff85aeafc3137c18 R08: 74726f702f303a33 R09: ff85aeafc3137bb8
[83428.295826] R10: ff85aeafc3137b18 R11: ff4290f5bd60fe68 R12: ff4290ee81290000
[83428.295830] R13: ff4290ee6e345de0 R14: ff4290ee81290000 R15: ff4290ee6e345e30
[83428.295833] FS:  00007fd9472a6740(0000) GS:ff4290f5ce96b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[83428.295837] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[83428.295840] CR2: 00007f242b4db238 CR3: 00000002372b8006 CR4: 0000000000771ef0
[83428.295844] PKRU: 55555554
[83428.295846] Call Trace:
[83428.295848]  <TASK>
[83428.295850]  _dev_printk+0x5c/0x80
[83428.295857]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[83428.295863]  mpt3sas_transport_port_remove+0x1c7/0x420 [mpt3sas]
[83428.295882]  _scsih_remove_device+0x21b/0x280 [mpt3sas]
[83428.295894]  ? _scsih_expander_node_remove+0x108/0x140 [mpt3sas]
[83428.295906]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[83428.295910]  mpt3sas_device_remove_by_sas_address.part.0+0x8f/0x110 [mpt3sas]
[83428.295921]  _scsih_expander_node_remove+0x129/0x140 [mpt3sas]
[83428.295933]  _scsih_expander_node_remove+0x6a/0x140 [mpt3sas]
[83428.295944]  scsih_remove+0x3f0/0x4a0 [mpt3sas]
[83428.295957]  pci_device_remove+0x3b/0xb0
[83428.295962]  device_release_driver_internal+0x193/0x200
[83428.295968]  driver_detach+0x44/0x90
[83428.295971]  bus_remove_driver+0x69/0xf0
[83428.295975]  pci_unregister_driver+0x2a/0xb0
[83428.295979]  _mpt3sas_exit+0x1f/0x300 [mpt3sas]
[83428.295991]  __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x174/0x310
[83428.295997]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[83428.296000]  ? __x64_sys_getdents64+0x9a/0x110
[83428.296005]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[83428.296009]  ? syscall_trace_enter+0xf6/0x1b0
[83428.296014]  do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x2c0
[83428.296019]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[83428.296023]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Statement: A UAF in mpt3sas_transport_port_remove() arises from logging with dev_printk() against mpt3sas_port->port->dev after the SAS transport device may be partially unregistered/freed, leading to a kernel GPF and DoS.
A local actor (typically with elevated privileges) triggering driver removal or aggressive device removal can hit the error-path and cause the crash.
The patch switches logging to ioc_info() (via the PCI device), which remains valid until the driver is detached, eliminating the dangling-device dereference.

Remediation: