# CVE-2024-50025: scsi: fnic: Move flush_work initialization out of if block

> A missing initialization in the fnic driver causes a kernel warning and potential denial of service during Fibre Channel device rediscovery.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-50025, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50025, GHSA-ppgx-9w2c-p5c8, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50025

## What is CVE-2024-50025?

CVE-2024-50025 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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: fnic: Move flush_work initialization out of if block

After commit 379a58caa199 ("scsi: fnic: Move fnic_fnic_flush_tx() to a
work queue"), it can happen that a work item is sent to an uninitialized
work queue.  This may has the effect that the item being queued is never
actually queued, and any further actions depending on it will not
proceed.

The following warning is observed while the fnic driver is loaded:

kernel: WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 0 at ../kernel/workqueue.c:1524 __queue_work+0x373/0x410
kernel:  <IRQ>
kernel:  queue_work_on+0x3a/0x50
kernel:  fnic_wq_copy_cmpl_handler+0x54a/0x730 [fnic 62fbff0c42e7fb825c60a55cde2fb91facb2ed24]
kernel:  fnic_isr_msix_wq_copy+0x2d/0x60 [fnic 62fbff0c42e7fb825c60a55cde2fb91facb2ed24]
kernel:  __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x36/0x1a0
kernel:  handle_irq_event_percpu+0x30/0x70
kernel:  handle_irq_event+0x34/0x60
kernel:  handle_edge_irq+0x7e/0x1a0
kernel:  __common_interrupt+0x3b/0xb0
kernel:  common_interrupt+0x58/0xa0
kernel:  </IRQ>

It has been observed that this may break the rediscovery of Fibre
Channel devices after a temporary fabric failure.

This patch fixes it by moving the work queue initialization out of
an if block in fnic_probe().

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50025?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-50025?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-50025 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50025 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-50025 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-50025 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50025 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50025/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50025/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50025
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50025
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-50025

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50025/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.