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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 24, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

scsi: mpt3sas: Fix kernel panic during drive powercycle test

CVE-2021-47565

Description

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

scsi: mpt3sas: Fix kernel panic during drive powercycle test

While looping over shost's sdev list it is possible that one of the drives is getting removed and its sas_target object is freed but its sdev object remains intact.

Consequently, a kernel panic can occur while the driver is trying to access the sas_address field of sas_target object without also checking the sas_target object for NULL.

Affected products

189

Patches

0

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