scsi: mpi3mr: Bad drive in topology results kernel crash
authorRanjan Kumar <ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com>
Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:08:35 +0000 (06:08 -0800)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Mon, 6 Mar 2023 23:33:13 +0000 (18:33 -0500)
commit8e45183978d64699df639e795235433a60f35047
tree99bacd5d4726126f14ab76b0963b79cc733138fd
parent4f297e856a7b5da2f2c66a12e739666e23943560
scsi: mpi3mr: Bad drive in topology results kernel crash

When the SAS Transport Layer support is enabled and a device exposed to
the OS by the driver fails INQUIRY commands, the driver frees up the memory
allocated for an internal HBA port data structure. However, in some places,
the reference to the freed memory is not cleared. When the firmware sends
the Device Info change event for the same device again, the freed memory is
accessed and that leads to memory corruption and OS crash.

Signed-off-by: Ranjan Kumar <ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230228140835.4075-7-ranjan.kumar@broadcom.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/scsi/mpi3mr/mpi3mr_transport.c