CVE-2026-97527

scsi: qla2xxx: Serialize NVMe unsol ctx list with a per-fcport lock

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 25, 2026 at 10:21 AM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:21 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Serialize NVMe unsol ctx list with a per-fcport lock The fcport->unsol_ctx_head list is modified from several contexts without a common lock. Entries are added in qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb() from the response queue ISR (under the qpair qp_lock), while they are removed from qla2xxx_process_purls_pkt() (DPC/purex worker), qla_nvme_xmt_ls_rsp() (NVMe-FC transport callback) and qla_nvme_release_lsrsp_cmd_kref() (SRB completion). The qpair qp_lock cannot serialize this per-fcport list since multiqueue adapters add entries through different qpairs, so a concurrent add and delete (or two concurrent deletes) can corrupt the list pointers. Introduce a dedicated per-fcport spinlock, unsol_ctx_lock, initialized in qla2x00_alloc_fcport(), and take it around every list_add_tail()/list_del() on unsol_ctx_head. The add nests under the existing qp_lock; no delete path takes qp_lock, so the lock order is consistent and deadlock free.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.6875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c
Vendor states this is fixed in 4d8ad6bc8cc5eff1870cef00a0d611f38f8b6bd0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 76da0c43c63eb0496649e372ac64466364d0fe7d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b211d138cad86f749826d6132db6388eded992d8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c1ee12eecbab9674fb73c9e00a93fac655d5a5dc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.112 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.53 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

8.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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