Answer in brief
CVE-2026-89857 records a Critical severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in scsi: qla2xxx: Hold qpair lock when sending NVMe LS reject. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 9.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c <7eb618877503edbf17aa65e357a81bda1fc8f163 || >=875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c <b3a362466db6b8ec47cc537ac641ac197fa69b5d || >=875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c <11834e5773e20fd3742d7eb900876e66b9e7d029 || >=875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c <b02ff132017b28222187ebcf95ce7f4cb576cd36 || >=875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c <f743488e4a203049f27ec5d8cd0caccc483af01e | 7eb618877503edbf17aa65e357a81bda1fc8f163, b3a362466db6b8ec47cc537ac641ac197fa69b5d, 11834e5773e20fd3742d7eb900876e66b9e7d029, b02ff132017b28222187ebcf95ce7f4cb576cd36, f743488e4a203049f27ec5d8cd0caccc483af01e |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.6 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 16, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 19, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 16, 2026
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.
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