Bug 2535318 (CVE-2026-89857)

Summary: CVE-2026-89857 kernel: scsi: qla2xxx: Hold qpair lock when sending NVMe LS reject
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's `qla2xxx` SCSI driver. This vulnerability occurs because a specific function responsible for sending NVMe Local-Scope (LS) rejects does not properly acquire a necessary lock. This oversight allows for concurrent operations, which can corrupt the internal state of the I/O request ring. As a result, input/output commands may be duplicated or dropped, potentially leading to data integrity issues or system instability.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-16 12:02:09 UTC
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.