On 11/18/25 2:42 AM, Ваторопин Андрей wrote:

From: Andrey Vatoropin a.vatoropin@crpt.ru

If allocation of cmd->t_task_cdb fails, it remains NULL but is later dereferenced at the 'err' path.

In case of error reset NULL t_task_cdb value to point at the default fixed-size buffer.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 9e95fb805dc0 ("scsi: target: Fix NULL pointer dereference") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrey Vatoropin a.vatoropin@crpt.ru

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drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c index 0a76bdfe5528..88544c911949 100644 --- a/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_transport.c @@ -1524,6 +1524,7 @@ target_cmd_init_cdb(struct se_cmd *cmd, unsigned char *cdb, gfp_t gfp) if (scsi_command_size(cdb) > sizeof(cmd->__t_task_cdb)) { cmd->t_task_cdb = kzalloc(scsi_command_size(cdb), gfp); if (!cmd->t_task_cdb) {

• 	cmd->t_task_cdb = &cmd->__t_task_cdb[0];
  pr_err("Unable to allocate cmd->t_task_cdb"
  	" %u > sizeof(cmd->__t_task_cdb): %lu ops\n",
  	scsi_command_size(cdb),
  

Reviewed-by: Mike Christie michael.christie@oracle.com