Bug 2401516 (CVE-2022-50493)

Summary: CVE-2022-50493 kernel: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash when I/O abort times out
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:05:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash when I/O abort times out

While performing CPU hotplug, a crash with the following stack was seen:

Call Trace:
     qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x42a/0x970 [qla2xxx]
     qla2x00_start_nvme_mq+0x3a2/0x4b0 [qla2xxx]
     qla_nvme_post_cmd+0x166/0x240 [qla2xxx]
     nvme_fc_start_fcp_op.part.0+0x119/0x2e0 [nvme_fc]
     blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x17b/0x610
     __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xb0/0x140
     blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x30/0x60
     __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x35/0x90
     __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x161/0x180
     blk_execute_rq+0xbe/0x160
     __nvme_submit_sync_cmd+0x16f/0x220 [nvme_core]
     nvmf_connect_admin_queue+0x11a/0x170 [nvme_fabrics]
     nvme_fc_create_association.cold+0x50/0x3dc [nvme_fc]
     nvme_fc_connect_ctrl_work+0x19/0x30 [nvme_fc]
     process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0

On abort timeout, completion was called without checking if the I/O was
already completed.

Verify that I/O and abort request are indeed outstanding before attempting
completion.