Bug 2535110 (CVE-2026-89850) - CVE-2026-89850 kernel: scsi: qla2xxx: Don't query firmware state while chip is down
Summary: CVE-2026-89850 kernel: scsi: qla2xxx: Don't query firmware state while chip i...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-89850
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-16 10:47 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-01 04:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-16 10:47:16 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Don't query firmware state while chip is down

qla2x00_fw_state_show() initializes rval to QLA_FUNCTION_FAILED and jumps
to the out: label when the chip is down or EEH is busy. The out: block
then re-issued qla2x00_get_firmware_state() because rval != QLA_SUCCESS,
defeating the chip-down/EEH-busy guards and issuing a mailbox command
(outside optrom_mutex) during ISP reset or PCI error recovery, which can
hang the adapter. It also turned a normal in-lock mailbox failure into a
second unsynchronized mailbox attempt.

Make the out: fallback only mark the firmware state as unknown. The
mailbox is now issued at most once, inside optrom_mutex, and only when
the chip is up and not EEH-busy.


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