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* Re: CVE-2021-47188: scsi: ufs: core: Improve SCSI abort handling
       [not found] <2024041034-CVE-2021-47188-092a@gregkh>
@ 2024-08-05 16:48 ` Cengiz Can
  2024-08-06  6:41   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Cengiz Can @ 2024-08-05 16:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cve, linux-kernel; +Cc: linux-cve-announce, Greg Kroah-Hartman, security

Hello,

I'm trying to figure out the security impact here:

> That warning is triggered by the following statement:
> 
> 	WARN_ON(lrbp->cmd);

This is just a fix to silence a warning. How is this worthy of a CVE? What was
the criteria here?

If there are security implications of not nullifying `lrbp->cmd`, shouldn't they
be noted in the CVE description?

If this just a fix to the warning, this CVE should be rejected.

Cengiz Can

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* Re: CVE-2021-47188: scsi: ufs: core: Improve SCSI abort handling
  2024-08-05 16:48 ` CVE-2021-47188: scsi: ufs: core: Improve SCSI abort handling Cengiz Can
@ 2024-08-06  6:41   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2024-08-06  6:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Cengiz Can; +Cc: cve, linux-kernel, linux-cve-announce, security

On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 07:48:13PM +0300, Cengiz Can wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to figure out the security impact here:
> 
> > That warning is triggered by the following statement:
> > 
> > 	WARN_ON(lrbp->cmd);
> 
> This is just a fix to silence a warning. How is this worthy of a CVE? What was
> the criteria here?
> 
> If there are security implications of not nullifying `lrbp->cmd`, shouldn't they
> be noted in the CVE description?

CVE descriptions come directly from the kernel changelog text.  If you
wish them to say something else, please submit a patch against that text
and we can apply that.

> If this just a fix to the warning, this CVE should be rejected.

If userspace can trigger a WARN_ON() then the machine can be rebooted if
panic-on-warn is enabled, and so it requires a CVE assignment.

thanks

greg k-h

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