Re: CVE request: kernel: bfa driver sysfs crash

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

Please use CVE-2010-4343

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Eugene Teo" <eugene () redhat com> wrote:

> The port data structure related to fc_host statistics collection is
> not
> initialized. This causes system crash when reading the fc_host 
> statistics. The fix is to initialize port structure during driver
> attach.
>
> This can be triggered by reading the fc statistics files under
> /sys/class/fc_host/host#/statistics.
>
> A bfa adapter must be present in the system for the problem to occur.
>
> Upstream commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/7873ca4e4401f0ecd8868bf1543113467e6bae61
>
> Reference:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661182
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg43772.html
>
> Thanks, Eugene