CVE-2026-89857

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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.

Severity

CRITICAL

CVSS score

9.8 (v3.1)

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-09-16 11:16:53.573000

Last modified

2026-10-19 09:18:30.110000

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  "id": "CVE-2026-89857",
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-09-16T11:16:53.573",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T09:18:30.110",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
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  "descriptions": [
    {
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Hold qpair lock when sending NVMe LS reject\n\nqla_nvme_ls_reject_iocb() allocates from and advances the request ring\nthrough __qla2x00_alloc_iocbs() (which assumes the hardware_lock is\nheld) and qla2x00_start_iocbs() (which advances the ring and rings the\nrequest-in doorbell), but takes no lock itself. Two of its callers\ninvoke it without the producer lock held:\n\n - qla_nvme_xmt_ls_rsp(), the NVMe-FC .xmt_ls_rsp transport callback, on\n   its error path, and\n\n - qla2xxx_process_purls_pkt(), run from the purex work/DPC context.\n\nBoth use ha->base_qpair, whose qp_lock_ptr is hardware_lock, so they can\nrun concurrently with normal I/O submission on the base ring and corrupt\nthe ring producer state, leading to duplicated or dropped commands. The\nthird caller, qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb(), runs inside\nqla24xx_process_response_queue() with the qpair lock already held and is\nsafe; that is also why the lock cannot be taken inside the helper itself\n(it would recursively re-acquire hardware_lock on the response path).\n\nTake qp_lock_ptr around the two unlocked callers and document the helper\nas caller-locked. Both run in process context, so spin_lock_irqsave() is\nused and nothing in the locked region sleeps."
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