CVE-2021-47188 (GCVE-0-2021-47188)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-10 18:56
Modified
2026-08-05 08:46
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: ufs: core: Improve SCSI abort handling The following has been observed on a test setup: WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 250 at drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c:2737 ufshcd_queuecommand+0x468/0x65c Call trace: ufshcd_queuecommand+0x468/0x65c scsi_send_eh_cmnd+0x224/0x6a0 scsi_eh_test_devices+0x248/0x418 scsi_eh_ready_devs+0xc34/0xe58 scsi_error_handler+0x204/0x80c kthread+0x150/0x1b4 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x30 That warning is triggered by the following statement: WARN_ON(lrbp->cmd); Fix this warning by clearing lrbp->cmd from the abort handler.
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