CVE-2022-48758 scsi: bnx2fc: Flush destroy_work queue before calling bnx2fc_interface_put()

Medium 5.5 Published 20 Jun 2024 Updated 11 May 2026

A race condition in the bnx2fc driver causes kernel warnings and potential instability when removing interfaces, requiring a patch to fix.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2022-48758?

CVE-2022-48758 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 20 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: bnx2fc: Flush destroy_work queue before calling bnx2fc_interface_put()

The bnx2fc_destroy() functions are removing the interface before calling destroy_work. This results multiple WARNings from sysfs_remove_group() as the controller rport device attributes are removed too early.

Replace the fcoe_port's destroy_work queue. It's not needed.

The problem is easily reproducible with the following steps.

Example:

$ dmesg -w & $ systemctl enable --now fcoe $ fipvlan -s -c ens2f1 $ fcoeadm -d ens2f1.802 [ 583.464488] host2: libfc: Link down on port (7500a1) [ 583.472651] bnx2fc: 7500a1 - rport not created Yet!! [ 583.490468] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 583.538725] sysfs group 'power' not found for kobject 'rport-2:0-0' [ 583.568814] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 192 at fs/sysfs/group.c:279 sysfs_remove_group+0x6f/0x80 [ 583.607130] Modules linked in: dm_service_time 8021q garp mrp stp llc bnx2fc cnic uio rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 ... [ 583.942994] CPU: 3 PID: 192 Comm: kworker/3:2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-39.el9.x86_64 #1 [ 583.984105] Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL120 G7, BIOS J01 07/01/2013 [ 584.016535] Workqueue: fc_wq_2 fc_rport_final_delete [scsi_transport_fc] [ 584.050691] RIP: 0010:sysfs_remove_group+0x6f/0x80 [ 584.074725] Code: ff 5b 48 89 ef 5d 41 5c e9 ee c0 ff ff 48 89 ef e8 f6 b8 ff ff eb d1 49 8b 14 24 48 8b 33 48 c7 c7 ... [ 584.162586] RSP: 0018:ffffb567c15afdc0 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 584.188225] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff8eec4220 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 584.221053] RDX: ffff8c1586ce84c0 RSI: ffff8c1586cd7cc0 RDI: ffff8c1586cd7cc0 [ 584.255089] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb567c15afc00 [ 584.287954] R10: ffffb567c15afbf8 R11: ffffffff8fbe7f28 R12: ffff8c1486326400 [ 584.322356] R13: ffff8c1486326480 R14: ffff8c1483a4a000 R15: 0000000000000004 [ 584.355379] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8c1586cc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 584.394419] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 584.421123] CR2: 00007fe95a6f7840 CR3: 0000000107674002 CR4: 00000000000606e0 [ 584.454888] Call Trace: [ 584.466108] device_del+0xb2/0x3e0 [ 584.481701] device_unregister+0x13/0x60 [ 584.501306] bsg_unregister_queue+0x5b/0x80 [ 584.522029] bsg_remove_queue+0x1c/0x40 [ 584.541884] fc_rport_final_delete+0xf3/0x1d0 [scsi_transport_fc] [ 584.573823] process_one_work+0x1e3/0x3b0 [ 584.592396] worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0 [ 584.609256] ? rescuer_thread+0x370/0x370 [ 584.628877] kthread+0x149/0x170 [ 584.643673] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40 [ 584.662909] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 584.680002] ---[ end trace 53575ecefa942ece ]---

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48758?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-48758?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-48758 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48758 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48758, GHSA-2x6c-642q-vfcc, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48758.