CVE-2021-47192

/// Technical 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

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

/// References