Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix for a potential deadlock
This fixes a ‘possible circular locking dependency detected’ warning CPU0 CPU1
lock(&instance->reset_mutex); lock(&shost->scan_mutex); lock(&instance->reset_mutex); lock(&shost->scan_mutex);
Fix this by temporarily releasing the reset_mutex.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+15 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix for a potential deadlock
This fixes a ‘possible circular locking dependency detected’ warning CPU0 CPU1
lock(&instance->reset_mutex); lock(&shost->scan_mutex); lock(&instance->reset_mutex); lock(&shost->scan_mutex);
Fix this by temporarily releasing the reset_mutex.