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CVE-2021-47192

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CVE-2021-47192

Published: Apr 10, 2024

Modified: May 23, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
69aa1a1a569f5c6d554b59352130ef363342ed4c - < edd783162bf2385b43de6764f2d4c6e9f4f6be27
affected
711459514e297d748f15ba1f5292a3276c3d1dd0 - < a792e0128d232251edb5fdf42fb0f9fbb0b44a73
affected
f0f82e2476f6adb9c7a0135cfab8091456990c99 - < bcc0e3175a976b7fa9a353960808adb0bb49ead8
affected
f0f82e2476f6adb9c7a0135cfab8091456990c99 - < 4edd8cd4e86dd3047e5294bbefcc0a08f66a430f
affected
c6751ce1a2a415a78e4f5b621628da03196b804c

+3 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
5.14
unaffected
0 - < 5.14
unaffected
5.4.162 - <= 5.4.*
unaffected
5.10.82 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.5 - <= 5.15.*

+1 more versions

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