CVE-2026-89857
scsi: qla2xxx: Hold qpair lock when sending NVMe LS reject
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 9.8 Critical
- Published
- Sep 16, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 19, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Hold qpair lock when sending NVMe LS reject
qla_nvme_ls_reject_iocb() allocates from and advances the request ring through __qla2x00_alloc_iocbs() (which assumes the hardware_lock is held) and qla2x00_start_iocbs() (which advances the ring and rings the request-in doorbell), but takes no lock itself. Two of its callers invoke it without the producer lock held:
- qla_nvme_xmt_ls_rsp(), the NVMe-FC .xmt_ls_rsp transport callback, on its error path, and
- qla2xxx_process_purls_pkt(), run from the purex work/DPC context.
Both use ha->base_qpair, whose qp_lock_ptr is hardware_lock, so they can run concurrently with normal I/O submission on the base ring and corrupt the ring producer state, leading to duplicated or dropped commands. The third caller, qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb(), runs inside qla24xx_process_response_queue() with the qpair lock already held and is safe; that is also why the lock cannot be taken inside the helper itself (it would recursively re-acquire hardware_lock on the response path).
Take qp_lock_ptr around the two unlocked callers and document the helper as caller-locked. Both run in process context, so spin_lock_irqsave() is used and nothing in the locked region sleeps.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 9.8 Critical | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7eb618877503edbf17aa65e357a81bda1fc8f163
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3a362466db6b8ec47cc537ac641ac197fa69b5d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11834e5773e20fd3742d7eb900876e66b9e7d029
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b02ff132017b28222187ebcf95ce7f4cb576cd36
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f743488e4a203049f27ec5d8cd0caccc483af01e
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