CVE-2023-52811
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2023
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
scsi: ibmvfc: Remove BUG_ON in the case of an empty event pool
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ibmvfc: Remove BUG_ON in the case of an empty event pool In practice the driver should never send more commands than are allocated to a queue's event pool. In the unlikely event that this happens, the code asserts a BUG_ON, and in the case that the kernel is not configured to crash on panic returns a junk event pointer from the empty event list causing things to spiral from there. This BUG_ON is a historical artifact of the ibmvfc driver first being upstreamed, and it is well known now that the use of BUG_ON is bad practice except in the most unrecoverable scenario. There is nothing about this scenario that prevents the driver from recovering and carrying on. Remove the BUG_ON in question from ibmvfc_get_event() and return a NULL pointer in the case of an empty event pool. Update all call sites to ibmvfc_get_event() to check for a NULL pointer and perfrom the appropriate failure or recovery action.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 072b91f9c6510d0ec4a49d07dbc318760c7da7b3 | affected | git | e1d1f79b1929dce470a5dc9281c574cd58e8c6c0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 072b91f9c6510d0ec4a49d07dbc318760c7da7b3 | affected | git | 88984ec4792766df5a9de7a2ff2b5f281f94c7d4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 072b91f9c6510d0ec4a49d07dbc318760c7da7b3 | affected | git | d2af4ef80601224b90630c1ddc7cd2c7c8ab4dd8 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 072b91f9c6510d0ec4a49d07dbc318760c7da7b3 | affected | git | 8bbe784c2ff28d56ca0c548aaf3e584edc77052d | Unavailable | None listed |
| 072b91f9c6510d0ec4a49d07dbc318760c7da7b3 | affected | git | b39f2d10b86d0af353ea339e5815820026bca48f | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6.27 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 2.6.27 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.140 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.64 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.5.13 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.5.* | None listed |
| 6.6.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.7 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |