CVE-2025-21656

Summary

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

hwmon: (drivetemp) Fix driver producing garbage data when SCSI errors occur

scsi_execute_cmd() function can return both negative (linux codes) and positive (scsi_cmnd result field) error codes.

Currently the driver just passes error codes of scsi_execute_cmd() to hwmon core, which is incorrect because hwmon only checks for negative error codes. This leads to hwmon reporting uninitialized data to userspace in case of SCSI errors (for example if the disk drive was disconnected).

This patch checks scsi_execute_cmd() output and returns -EIO if it's error code is positive.

[groeck: Avoid inline variable declaration for portability]

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux5b46903d8bf372e563bf2150d46b87fff197a109 < 53e25b10a28edaf8c2a1d3916fd8929501a50dfcaffected
LinuxLinux5b46903d8bf372e563bf2150d46b87fff197a109 < 42268d885e44af875a6474f7bba519cc6cea6a9daffected
LinuxLinux5b46903d8bf372e563bf2150d46b87fff197a109 < 82163d63ae7a4c36142cd252388737205bb7e4b9affected
LinuxLinux5.6affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.6unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.72 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.10 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.13 <= *unaffected

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