Re: CVE-2022-50031: scsi: iscsi: Fix HW conn removal use after free

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 10:16:58PM +0800, Li Lingfeng wrote:
> Hi, Greg
>
> 在 2025/6/18 19:01, Greg Kroah-Hartman 写道:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@kernel.org>
> >
> > Description
> > ===========
> >
> > In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> >
> > scsi: iscsi: Fix HW conn removal use after free
> >
> > If qla4xxx doesn't remove the connection before the session, the iSCSI
> > class tries to remove the connection for it. We were doing a
> > iscsi_put_conn() in the iter function which is not needed and will result
> > in a use after free because iscsi_remove_conn() will free the connection.
> >
> > The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50031 to this issue.
> >
> >
> > Affected and fixed versions
> > ===========================
> >
> > Fixed in 5.19.4 with commit 0483ffc02ebb953124c592485a5c48ac4ffae5fe
> > Fixed in 6.0 with commit c577ab7ba5f3bf9062db8a58b6e89d4fe370447e
> >
> > Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
> > kernel versions by the kernel community.
> >
> > Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
> > older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
> > https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-50031
> > will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
> > up to date information about this issue.
> >
> >
> > Affected files
> > ==============
> >
> > The file(s) affected by this issue are:
> > drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
> >
> >
> > Mitigation
> > ==========
> >
> > The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
> > stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
> > changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
> > release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
> > supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
> > the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
> > issue can be found at these commits:
> > https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0483ffc02ebb953124c592485a5c48ac4ffae5fe
> > https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c577ab7ba5f3bf9062db8a58b6e89d4fe370447e
> >
> Based on the details described in the linked discussion, I have concerns
> that this patch may not fully resolve the Use-After-Free vulnerability.
> Instead, it appears the changes could potentially introduce memory leak
> issues.

Great, then that is a different type of issue, and when fixed, would get
a different CVE assigned to it.

> Given these concerns, I'd recommend ​rejecting this CVE until we can
> thoroughly investigate and validate the complete solution.

This fixes a known issue, why would it be rejected as such? The only
way we would reject this is if the upstream commit is reverted because
it was deemed to not be correct at all. If you feel this is the case,
please work to get that commit reverted there first.

Otherwise just fix the new bug :)

thanks,

greg k-h

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 09:35:25AM +0800, Li Lingfeng wrote:
> Hi, Greg
>

> Since it has been reverted by commit 7bdc68921481 ("scsi: Revert "scsi:
> iscsi: Fix HW conn removal use after free""), can this CVE be rejected
> now?
>
> Links:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250715073926.352...@huawei.com/

Yes it can, it just got caught by my "find_reverts" script which I run
every so often:
CVE-2022-50031 with sha c577ab7ba5f3bf9062db8a58b6e89d4fe370447e has been reverted, check to see if this is still a valid CVE

Will go reject it now, thanks!

greg k-h