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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Dec 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

scsi: hisi_sas: Create all dump files during debugfs initialization

For the current debugfs of hisi_sas, after user triggers dump, the
driver allocate memory space to save the register information and create
debugfs files to display the saved information. In this process, the
debugfs files created after each dump.

Therefore, when the dump is triggered while the driver is unbind, the
following hang occurs:

[67840.853907] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000a0
[67840.862947] Mem abort info:
[67840.865855] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[67840.869713] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[67840.875125] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[67840.878291] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[67840.881545] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[67840.886528] Data abort info:
[67840.889524] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[67840.895117] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[67840.900284] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[67840.905709] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000002803a1f000
[67840.912263] [00000000000000a0] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[67840.919177] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[67840.996435] pstate: 80400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[67841.003628] pc : down_write+0x30/0x98
[67841.007546] lr : start_creating.part.0+0x60/0x198
[67841.012495] sp : ffff8000b979ba20
[67841.016046] x29: ffff8000b979ba20 x28: 0000000000000010 x27: 0000000000024b40
[67841.023412] x26: 0000000000000012 x25: ffff20202b355ae8 x24: ffff20202b35a8c8
[67841.030779] x23: ffffa36877928208 x22: ffffa368b4972240 x21: ffff8000b979bb18
[67841.038147] x20: ffff00281dc1e3c0 x19: fffffffffffffffe x18: 0000000000000020
[67841.045515] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffa368b128a530 x15: ffffffffffffffff
[67841.052888] x14: ffff8000b979bc18 x13: ffffffffffffffff x12: ffff8000b979bb18
[67841.060263] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffa368b1289b18
[67841.067640] x8 : 0000000000000012 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 00000000000003a9
[67841.075014] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffff002818c5cb00 x3 : 0000000000000001
[67841.082388] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff002818c5cb00 x0 : 00000000000000a0
[67841.089759] Call trace:
[67841.092456] down_write+0x30/0x98
[67841.096017] start_creating.part.0+0x60/0x198
[67841.100613] debugfs_create_dir+0x48/0x1f8
[67841.104950] debugfs_create_files_v3_hw+0x88/0x348 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[67841.111447] debugfs_snapshot_regs_v3_hw+0x708/0x798 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[67841.118111] debugfs_trigger_dump_v3_hw_write+0x9c/0x120 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[67841.125115] full_proxy_write+0x68/0xc8
[67841.129175] vfs_write+0xd8/0x3f0
[67841.132708] ksys_write+0x70/0x108
[67841.136317] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
[67841.140440] invoke_syscall+0x50/0x128
[67841.144385] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
[67841.149273] do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
[67841.152773] el0_svc+0x38/0xd8
[67841.156009] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8
[67841.160361] el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
[67841.164189] Code: b9000882 d2800002 d2800023 f9800011 (c85ffc05)
[67841.170443] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

To fix this issue, create all directories and files during debugfs
initialization. In this way, the driver only needs to allocate memory
space to save information each time the user triggers dumping.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 27, 2024
Last updated Jan 9, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-56588

GHSA ID

GHSA-6f5r-5mjv-2p43

Source code

No known source code

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