This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: snic: Fix possible UAF in snic_tgt_create() to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scsi-snic-fix-possible-uaf-in-snic_tgt_create.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 316fd9d6191b783d9db0f06663faa01793c2318c Author: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 17 11:51:00 2022 +0800 scsi: snic: Fix possible UAF in snic_tgt_create() [ Upstream commit e118df492320176af94deec000ae034cc92be754 ] Smatch reports a warning as follows: drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c:307 snic_tgt_create() warn: '&tgt->list' not removed from list If device_add() fails in snic_tgt_create(), tgt will be freed, but tgt->list will not be removed from snic->disc.tgt_list, then list traversal may cause UAF. Remove from snic->disc.tgt_list before free(). Fixes: c8806b6c9e82 ("snic: driver for Cisco SCSI HBA") Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117035100.2944812-1-cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Narsimhulu Musini <nmusini@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c index e9ccfb97773f..7cf871323b2c 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c @@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ snic_tgt_create(struct snic *snic, struct snic_tgt_id *tgtid) ret); put_device(&snic->shost->shost_gendev); + spin_lock_irqsave(snic->shost->host_lock, flags); + list_del(&tgt->list); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(snic->shost->host_lock, flags); kfree(tgt); tgt = NULL;