CVE-2025-68818
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
13/01/2026
Last modified:
19/01/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
scsi: Revert "scsi: qla2xxx: Perform lockless command completion in abort path"<br />
<br />
This reverts commit 0367076b0817d5c75dfb83001ce7ce5c64d803a9.<br />
<br />
The commit being reverted added code to __qla2x00_abort_all_cmds() to<br />
call sp->done() without holding a spinlock. But unlike the older code<br />
below it, this new code failed to check sp->cmd_type and just assumed<br />
TYPE_SRB, which results in a jump to an invalid pointer in target-mode<br />
with TYPE_TGT_CMD:<br />
<br />
qla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-d034:8: qla24xx_do_nack_work create sess success<br />
0000000009f7a79b<br />
qla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-5003:8: ISP System Error - mbx1=1ff5h mbx2=10h<br />
mbx3=0h mbx4=0h mbx5=191h mbx6=0h mbx7=0h.<br />
qla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-d01e:8: -> fwdump no buffer<br />
qla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-f03a:8: qla_target(0): System error async event<br />
0x8002 occurred<br />
qla2xxx [0000:65:00.0]-00af:8: Performing ISP error recovery -<br />
ha=0000000058183fda.<br />
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000<br />
PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode<br />
PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page<br />
PGD 0 P4D 0<br />
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP<br />
CPU: 2 PID: 9446 Comm: qla2xxx_8_dpc Tainted: G O 6.1.133 #1<br />
Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X11SPL-F, BIOS 4.2 12/15/2023<br />
RIP: 0010:0x0<br />
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.<br />
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001f93dc8 EFLAGS: 00010206<br />
RAX: 0000000000000282 RBX: 0000000000000355 RCX: ffff88810d16a000<br />
RDX: ffff88810dbadaa8 RSI: 0000000000080000 RDI: ffff888169dc38c0<br />
RBP: ffff888169dc38c0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000045<br />
R10: ffffffffa034bdf0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88810800bb40<br />
R13: 0000000000001aa8 R14: ffff888100136610 R15: ffff8881070f7400<br />
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88bf80080000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000010c8ff006 CR4: 00000000003706e0<br />
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br />
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
? __die+0x4d/0x8b<br />
? page_fault_oops+0x91/0x180<br />
? trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x38/0x1a0<br />
? exc_page_fault+0x391/0x5e0<br />
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30<br />
__qla2x00_abort_all_cmds+0xcb/0x3e0 [qla2xxx_scst]<br />
qla2x00_abort_all_cmds+0x50/0x70 [qla2xxx_scst]<br />
qla2x00_abort_isp_cleanup+0x3b7/0x4b0 [qla2xxx_scst]<br />
qla2x00_abort_isp+0xfd/0x860 [qla2xxx_scst]<br />
qla2x00_do_dpc+0x581/0xa40 [qla2xxx_scst]<br />
kthread+0xa8/0xd0<br />
<br />
<br />
Then commit 4475afa2646d ("scsi: qla2xxx: Complete command early within<br />
lock") added the spinlock back, because not having the lock caused a<br />
race and a crash. But qla2x00_abort_srb() in the switch below already<br />
checks for qla2x00_chip_is_down() and handles it the same way, so the<br />
code above the switch is now redundant and still buggy in target-mode.<br />
Remove it.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c728951bc769b795d377852eae1abddad88635d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50b097d92c99f718831b8b349722bc79f718ba1b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b04b3733fff7e94566386b962e4795550fbdfd3d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b10ebbfd59a535c8d22f4ede6e8389622ce98dc0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b57fbc88715b6d18f379463f48a15b560b087ffe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5c37a821bd1708f26a9522b4a6f47b9f7a20003
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9e601b7df58ba0c667baf30263331df2c02ffe1



