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CVSS v3.1 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: ensure no dirty metadata is written back for an fs with errors
[BUG]
During development of a minor feature (make sure all btrfs_bio::end_io()
is called in task context), I noticed a crash in generic/388, where
metadata writes triggered new works after btrfs_stop_all_workers().
It turns out that it can even happen without any code modification, just
using RAID5 for metadata and the same workload from generic/388 is going
to trigger the use-after-free.
[CAUSE]
If btrfs hits an error, the fs is marked as error, no new
transaction is allowed thus metadata is in a frozen state.
But there are some metadata modifications before that error, and they are
still in the btree inode page cache.
Since there will be no real transaction commit, all those dirty folios
are just kept as is in the page cache, and they can not be invalidated
by invalidate_inode_pages2() call inside close_ctree(), because they are
dirty.
And finally after btrfs_stop_all_workers(), we call iput() on btree
inode, which triggers writeback of those dirty metadata.
And if the fs is using RAID56 metadata, this will trigger RMW and queue
new works into rmw_workers, which is already stopped, causing warning
from queue_work() and use-after-free.
[FIX]
Add a special handling for write_one_eb(), that if the fs is already in
an error state, immediately mark the bbio as failure, instead of really
submitting them.
Then during close_ctree(), iput() will just discard all those dirty
tree blocks without really writing them back, thus no more new jobs for
already stopped-and-freed workqueues.
The extra discard in write_one_eb() also acts as an extra safenet.
E.g. the transaction abort is triggered by some extent/free space
tree corruptions, and since extent/free space tree is already corrupted
some tree blocks may be allocated where they shouldn't be (overwriting
existing tree blocks). In that case writing them back will further
corrupting the fs. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: use hdev->workqueue when queuing hdev->{cmd,ncmd}_timer works
syzbot is reporting attempt to schedule hdev->cmd_work work from system_wq
WQ into hdev->workqueue WQ which is under draining operation [1], for
commit c8efcc2589464ac7 ("workqueue: allow chained queueing during
destruction") does not allow such operation.
The check introduced by commit 877afadad2dce8aa ("Bluetooth: When HCI work
queue is drained, only queue chained work") was incomplete.
Use hdev->workqueue WQ when queuing hdev->{cmd,ncmd}_timer works because
hci_{cmd,ncmd}_timeout() calls queue_work(hdev->workqueue). Also, protect
the queuing operation with RCU read lock in order to avoid calling
queue_delayed_work() after cancel_delayed_work() completed. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath9k: hif_usb: Fix use-after-free in ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb()
It is possible that skb is freed in ath9k_htc_rx_msg(), then
usb_submit_urb() fails and we try to free skb again. It causes
use-after-free bug. Moreover, if alloc_skb() fails, urb->context becomes
NULL but rx_buf is not freed and there can be a memory leak.
The patch removes unnecessary nskb and makes skb processing more clear: it
is supposed that ath9k_htc_rx_msg() either frees old skb or passes its
managing to another callback function.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: usbtmc: Fix direction for 0-length ioctl control messages
The syzbot fuzzer found a problem in the usbtmc driver: When a user
submits an ioctl for a 0-length control transfer, the driver does not
check that the direction is set to OUT:
------------[ cut here ]------------
usb 3-1: BOGUS control dir, pipe 80000b80 doesn't match bRequestType fd
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5100 at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411 usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 5100 Comm: syz-executor428 Not tainted 6.3.0-syzkaller-12049-g58390c8ce1bd #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/14/2023
RIP: 0010:usb_submit_urb+0x14a7/0x1880 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:411
Code: 7c 24 40 e8 1b 13 5c fb 48 8b 7c 24 40 e8 21 1d f0 fe 45 89 e8 44 89 f1 4c 89 e2 48 89 c6 48 c7 c7 e0 b5 fc 8a e8 19 c8 23 fb <0f> 0b e9 9f ee ff ff e8 ed 12 5c fb 0f b6 1d 12 8a 3c 08 31 ff 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003d2fb00 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880789e9058 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888029593b80 RSI: ffffffff814c1447 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff88801ea742f8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88802915e528
R13: 00000000000000fd R14: 0000000080000b80 R15: ffff8880222b3100
FS: 0000555556ca63c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f9ef4d18150 CR3: 0000000073e5b000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
usb_start_wait_urb+0x101/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:58
usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:102 [inline]
usb_control_msg+0x320/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153
usbtmc_ioctl_request drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:1954 [inline]
usbtmc_ioctl+0x1b3d/0x2840 drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.c:2097
To fix this, we must override the direction in the bRequestType field
of the control request structure when the length is 0. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
phy: qcom-qusb2: Fix NULL pointer dereference on early suspend
Enabling runtime PM before attaching the QPHY instance as driver data
can lead to a NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM callbacks that
expect valid driver data. There is a small window where the suspend
callback may run after PM runtime enabling and before runtime forbid.
This causes a sporadic crash during boot:
```
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000a1
[...]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.16.7+ #116 PREEMPT
Workqueue: pm pm_runtime_work
pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : qusb2_phy_runtime_suspend+0x14/0x1e0 [phy_qcom_qusb2]
lr : pm_generic_runtime_suspend+0x2c/0x44
[...]
```
Attach the QPHY instance as driver data before enabling runtime PM to
prevent NULL pointer dereference in runtime PM callbacks.
Reorder pm_runtime_enable() and pm_runtime_forbid() to prevent a
short window where an unnecessary runtime suspend can occur.
Use the devres-managed version to ensure PM runtime is symmetrically
disabled during driver removal for proper cleanup. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm flakey: don't corrupt the zero page
When we need to zero some range on a block device, the function
__blkdev_issue_zero_pages submits a write bio with the bio vector pointing
to the zero page. If we use dm-flakey with corrupt bio writes option, it
will corrupt the content of the zero page which results in crashes of
various userspace programs. Glibc assumes that memory returned by mmap is
zeroed and it uses it for calloc implementation; if the newly mapped
memory is not zeroed, calloc will return non-zeroed memory.
Fix this bug by testing if the page is equal to ZERO_PAGE(0) and
avoiding the corruption in this case. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RISC-V: kexec: Fix memory leak of fdt buffer
This is reported by kmemleak detector:
unreferenced object 0xff60000082864000 (size 9588):
comm "kexec", pid 146, jiffies 4294900634 (age 64.788s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
d0 0d fe ed 00 00 12 ed 00 00 00 48 00 00 11 40 ...........H...@
00 00 00 28 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 ...(............
backtrace:
[<00000000f95b17c4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x3e
[<00000000b9ec8e3e>] kmalloc_order+0x9c/0xc4
[<00000000a95cf02e>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x34/0xb6
[<00000000f01e68b4>] __kmalloc+0x5c2/0x62a
[<000000002bd497b2>] kvmalloc_node+0x66/0xd6
[<00000000906542fa>] of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt+0xa6/0x6ea
[<00000000e1166bde>] elf_kexec_load+0x206/0x4ec
[<0000000036548e09>] kexec_image_load_default+0x40/0x4c
[<0000000079fbe1b4>] sys_kexec_file_load+0x1c4/0x322
[<0000000040c62c03>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2
In elf_kexec_load(), a buffer is allocated via kvmalloc() to store fdt.
While it's not freed back to system when kexec kernel is reloaded or
unloaded. Then memory leak is caused. Fix it by introducing riscv
specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(), and freeing the
buffer there. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid0, raid10: Don't set discard sectors for request queue
It should use disk_stack_limits to get a proper max_discard_sectors
rather than setting a value by stack drivers.
And there is a bug. If all member disks are rotational devices,
raid0/raid10 set max_discard_sectors. So the member devices are
not ssd/nvme, but raid0/raid10 export the wrong value. It reports
warning messages in function __blkdev_issue_discard when mkfs.xfs
like this:
[ 4616.022599] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 4616.027779] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 99634 at block/blk-lib.c:50 __blkdev_issue_discard+0x16a/0x1a0
[ 4616.140663] RIP: 0010:__blkdev_issue_discard+0x16a/0x1a0
[ 4616.146601] Code: 24 4c 89 20 31 c0 e9 fe fe ff ff c1 e8 09 8d 48 ff 4c 89 f0 4c 09 e8 48 85 c1 0f 84 55 ff ff ff b8 ea ff ff ff e9 df fe ff ff <0f> 0b 48 8d 74 24 08 e8 ea d6 00 00 48 c7 c6 20 1e 89 ab 48 c7 c7
[ 4616.167567] RSP: 0018:ffffaab88cbffca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 4616.173406] RAX: ffff9ba1f9e44678 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff9ba1c9792080
[ 4616.181376] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff9ba1c9792080
[ 4616.189345] RBP: 0000000000000cc0 R08: ffffaab88cbffd10 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 4616.197317] R10: 0000000000000012 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 4616.205288] R13: 0000000000400000 R14: 0000000000000cc0 R15: ffff9ba1c9792080
[ 4616.213259] FS: 00007f9a5534e980(0000) GS:ffff9ba1b7c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 4616.222298] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 4616.228719] CR2: 000055a390a4c518 CR3: 0000000123e40006 CR4: 00000000001706e0
[ 4616.236689] Call Trace:
[ 4616.239428] blkdev_issue_discard+0x52/0xb0
[ 4616.244108] blkdev_common_ioctl+0x43c/0xa00
[ 4616.248883] blkdev_ioctl+0x116/0x280
[ 4616.252977] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xc0
[ 4616.257163] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x90
[ 4616.261164] ? handle_mm_fault+0xc5/0x2a0
[ 4616.265652] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x1d8/0x690
[ 4616.270527] ? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x90
[ 4616.274717] ? exc_page_fault+0x62/0x150
[ 4616.279097] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[ 4616.284748] RIP: 0033:0x7f9a55398c6b |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: NFSv4 file creation neglects setting ACL
An NFSv4 client that sets an ACL with a named principal during file
creation retrieves the ACL afterwards, and finds that it is only a
default ACL (based on the mode bits) and not the ACL that was
requested during file creation. This violates RFC 8881 section
6.4.1.3: "the ACL attribute is set as given".
The issue occurs in nfsd_create_setattr(), which calls
nfsd_attrs_valid() to determine whether to call nfsd_setattr().
However, nfsd_attrs_valid() checks only for iattr changes and
security labels, but not POSIX ACLs. When only an ACL is present,
the function returns false, nfsd_setattr() is skipped, and the
POSIX ACL is never applied to the inode.
Subsequently, when the client retrieves the ACL, the server finds
no POSIX ACL on the inode and returns one generated from the file's
mode bits rather than returning the originally-specified ACL. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: xiic: xiic_xfer(): Fix runtime PM leak on error path
The xiic_xfer() function gets a runtime PM reference when the function is
entered. This reference is released when the function is exited. There is
currently one error path where the function exits directly, which leads to
a leak of the runtime PM reference.
Make sure that this error path also releases the runtime PM reference. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/srpt: Add a check for valid 'mad_agent' pointer
When unregistering MAD agent, srpt module has a non-null check
for 'mad_agent' pointer before invoking ib_unregister_mad_agent().
This check can pass if 'mad_agent' variable holds an error value.
The 'mad_agent' can have an error value for a short window when
srpt_add_one() and srpt_remove_one() is executed simultaneously.
In srpt module, added a valid pointer check for 'sport->mad_agent'
before unregistering MAD agent.
This issue can hit when RoCE driver unregisters ib_device
Stack Trace:
------------
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000004d
PGD 145003067 P4D 145003067 PUD 2324fe067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 10 PID: 4459 Comm: kworker/u80:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: P
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/06NR82, BIOS 2.5.4 01/13/2020
Workqueue: bnxt_re bnxt_re_task [bnxt_re]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x40
Call Trace:
ib_unregister_mad_agent+0x46/0x2f0 [ib_core]
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): bond0: link becomes ready
? __schedule+0x20b/0x560
srpt_unregister_mad_agent+0x93/0xd0 [ib_srpt]
srpt_remove_one+0x20/0x150 [ib_srpt]
remove_client_context+0x88/0xd0 [ib_core]
bond0: (slave p2p1): link status definitely up, 100000 Mbps full duplex
disable_device+0x8a/0x160 [ib_core]
bond0: active interface up!
? kernfs_name_hash+0x12/0x80
(NULL device *): Bonding Info Received: rdev: 000000006c0b8247
__ib_unregister_device+0x42/0xb0 [ib_core]
(NULL device *): Master: mode: 4 num_slaves:2
ib_unregister_device+0x22/0x30 [ib_core]
(NULL device *): Slave: id: 105069936 name:p2p1 link:0 state:0
bnxt_re_stopqps_and_ib_uninit+0x83/0x90 [bnxt_re]
bnxt_re_alloc_lag+0x12e/0x4e0 [bnxt_re] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: zynqmp: Fix stack-out-of-bounds in strncpy`
"BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strncpy+0x30/0x68"
Linux-ATF interface is using 16 bytes of SMC payload. In case clock name is
longer than 15 bytes, string terminated NULL character will not be received
by Linux. Add explicit NULL character at last byte to fix issues when clock
name is longer.
This fixes below bug reported by KASAN:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in strncpy+0x30/0x68
Read of size 1 at addr ffff0008c89a7410 by task swapper/0/1
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.4.0-00396-g81ef9e7-dirty #3
Hardware name: Xilinx Versal vck190 Eval board revA (QSPI) (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1e8
show_stack+0x14/0x20
dump_stack+0xd4/0x108
print_address_description.isra.0+0xbc/0x37c
__kasan_report+0x144/0x198
kasan_report+0xc/0x18
__asan_load1+0x5c/0x68
strncpy+0x30/0x68
zynqmp_clock_probe+0x238/0x7b8
platform_drv_probe+0x6c/0xc8
really_probe+0x14c/0x418
driver_probe_device+0x74/0x130
__device_attach_driver+0xc4/0xe8
bus_for_each_drv+0xec/0x150
__device_attach+0x160/0x1d8
device_initial_probe+0x10/0x18
bus_probe_device+0xe0/0xf0
device_add+0x528/0x950
of_device_add+0x5c/0x80
of_platform_device_create_pdata+0x120/0x168
of_platform_bus_create+0x244/0x4e0
of_platform_populate+0x50/0xe8
zynqmp_firmware_probe+0x370/0x3a8
platform_drv_probe+0x6c/0xc8
really_probe+0x14c/0x418
driver_probe_device+0x74/0x130
device_driver_attach+0x94/0xa0
__driver_attach+0x70/0x108
bus_for_each_dev+0xe4/0x158
driver_attach+0x30/0x40
bus_add_driver+0x21c/0x2b8
driver_register+0xbc/0x1d0
__platform_driver_register+0x7c/0x88
zynqmp_firmware_driver_init+0x1c/0x24
do_one_initcall+0xa4/0x234
kernel_init_freeable+0x1b0/0x24c
kernel_init+0x10/0x110
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffff0008f9be1c88 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
raw: 0008d00000000000 ffff0008f9be1c90 ffff0008f9be1c90 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
addr ffff0008c89a7410 is located in stack of task swapper/0/1 at offset 112 in frame:
zynqmp_clock_probe+0x0/0x7b8
this frame has 3 objects:
[32, 44) 'response'
[64, 80) 'ret_payload'
[96, 112) 'name'
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff0008c89a7300: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff0008c89a7380: 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 04 f2 f2 00 00 f2 f2
>ffff0008c89a7400: 00 00 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
^
ffff0008c89a7480: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff0008c89a7500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
================================================================== |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Fix memory leak in lpfc_create_port()
Commit 5e633302ace1 ("scsi: lpfc: vmid: Add support for VMID in mailbox
command") introduced allocations for the VMID resources in
lpfc_create_port() after the call to scsi_host_alloc(). Upon failure on the
VMID allocations, the new code would branch to the 'out' label, which
returns NULL without unwinding anything, thus skipping the call to
scsi_host_put().
Fix the problem by creating a separate label 'out_free_vmid' to unwind the
VMID resources and make the 'out_put_shost' label call only
scsi_host_put(), as was done before the introduction of allocations for
VMID. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: message: mptlan: Fix use after free bug in mptlan_remove() due to race condition
mptlan_probe() calls mpt_register_lan_device() which initializes the
&priv->post_buckets_task workqueue. A call to
mpt_lan_wake_post_buckets_task() will subsequently start the work.
During driver unload in mptlan_remove() the following race may occur:
CPU0 CPU1
|mpt_lan_post_receive_buckets_work()
mptlan_remove() |
free_netdev() |
kfree(dev); |
|
| dev->mtu
| //use
Fix this by finishing the work prior to cleaning up in mptlan_remove().
[mkp: we really should remove mptlan instead of attempting to fix it] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tpm: tpm_vtpm_proxy: fix a race condition in /dev/vtpmx creation
/dev/vtpmx is made visible before 'workqueue' is initialized, which can
lead to a memory corruption in the worst case scenario.
Address this by initializing 'workqueue' as the very first step of the
driver initialization. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ptp_qoriq: fix memory leak in probe()
Smatch complains that:
drivers/ptp/ptp_qoriq.c ptp_qoriq_probe()
warn: 'base' from ioremap() not released.
Fix this by revising the parameter from 'ptp_qoriq->base' to 'base'.
This is only a bug if ptp_qoriq_init() returns on the
first -ENODEV error path.
For other error paths ptp_qoriq->base and base are the same.
And this change makes the code more readable. |
| Cypress Solutions CTM-200/CTM-ONE 1.3.6 contains hard-coded credentials vulnerability in Linux distribution that exposes root access. Attackers can exploit the static 'Chameleon' password to gain remote root access via Telnet or SSH on affected devices. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipu3-imgu: Fix NULL pointer dereference in imgu_subdev_set_selection()
Calling v4l2_subdev_get_try_crop() and v4l2_subdev_get_try_compose()
with a subdev state of NULL leads to a NULL pointer dereference. This
can currently happen in imgu_subdev_set_selection() when the state
passed in is NULL, as this method first gets pointers to both the "try"
and "active" states and only then decides which to use.
The same issue has been addressed for imgu_subdev_get_selection() with
commit 30d03a0de650 ("ipu3-imgu: Fix NULL pointer dereference in active
selection access"). However the issue still persists in
imgu_subdev_set_selection().
Therefore, apply a similar fix as done in the aforementioned commit to
imgu_subdev_set_selection(). To keep things a bit cleaner, introduce
helper functions for "crop" and "compose" access and use them in both
imgu_subdev_set_selection() and imgu_subdev_get_selection(). |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Fix a possible null-pointer dereference in ni_clear()
In a previous commit c1006bd13146, ni->mi.mrec in ni_write_inode()
could be NULL, and thus a NULL check is added for this variable.
However, in the same call stack, ni->mi.mrec can be also dereferenced
in ni_clear():
ntfs_evict_inode(inode)
ni_write_inode(inode, ...)
ni = ntfs_i(inode);
is_rec_inuse(ni->mi.mrec) -> Add a NULL check by previous commit
ni_clear(ntfs_i(inode))
is_rec_inuse(ni->mi.mrec) -> No check
Thus, a possible null-pointer dereference may exist in ni_clear().
To fix it, a NULL check is added in this function. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: double free xprt_ctxt while still in use
When an RPC request is deferred, the rq_xprt_ctxt pointer is moved out
of the svc_rqst into the svc_deferred_req.
When the deferred request is revisited, the pointer is copied into
the new svc_rqst - and also remains in the svc_deferred_req.
In the (rare?) case that the request is deferred a second time, the old
svc_deferred_req is reused - it still has all the correct content.
However in that case the rq_xprt_ctxt pointer is NOT cleared so that
when xpo_release_xprt is called, the ctxt is freed (UDP) or possible
added to a free list (RDMA).
When the deferred request is revisited for a second time, it will
reference this ctxt which may be invalid, and the free the object a
second time which is likely to oops.
So change svc_defer() to *always* clear rq_xprt_ctxt, and assert that
the value is now stored in the svc_deferred_req. |