Bug 2373450 (CVE-2022-50098)

Summary:	CVE-2022-50098 kernel: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash due to stale SRB access around I/O timeouts
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:03:30 UTC

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash due to stale SRB access around I/O timeouts

Ensure SRB is returned during I/O timeout error escalation. If that is not
possible fail the escalation path.

Following crash stack was seen:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000002f56aa90f8
IP: qla_chk_edif_rx_sa_delete_pending+0x14/0x30 [qla2xxx]
Call Trace:
 ? qla2x00_status_entry+0x19f/0x1c50 [qla2xxx]
 ? qla2x00_start_sp+0x116/0x1170 [qla2xxx]
 ? dma_pool_alloc+0x1d6/0x210
 ? mempool_alloc+0x54/0x130
 ? qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x548/0x12b0 [qla2xxx]
 ? qla_do_work+0x2d/0x40 [qla2xxx]
 ? process_one_work+0x14c/0x390

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-20 05:22:00 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061803-CVE-2022-50098-ed6e@gregkh/T