CVE-2023-53056

scsi: qla2xxx: Synchronize the IOCB count to be in order

published May 2, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Synchronize the IOCB count to be in order

A system hang was observed with the following call trace:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000

PGD 0 P4D 0

Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI

CPU: 15 PID: 86747 Comm: nvme Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.2.0+ #1

Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R6515/04F3CJ, BIOS 2.7.3 03/31/2022

RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x55/0x190

Code: 41 f6 01 04 0f 85 b2 00 00 00 48 8b 43 08 4c 8d

40 e8 48 8d 43 08 48 89 04 24 48 89 c6\

49 8d 40 18 48 39 c6 0f 84 e9 00 00 00 <49> 8b 40 18 89 6c 24 14 31

ed 4c 8d 60 e8 41 8b 18 f6 c3 04 75 5d

RSP: 0018:ffffb05a82afbba0 EFLAGS: 00010082

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8f9b83a00018 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff8f9b83a00020 RDI: ffff8f9b83a00018

RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffffffffffffffe8 R09: ffffb05a82afbbf8

R10: 70735f7472617473 R11: 5f30307832616c71 R12: 0000000000000001

R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

FS: 00007f815cf4c740(0000) GS:ffff8f9eeed80000(0000)

knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000010633a000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__wake_up_common_lock+0x83/0xd0

qla_nvme_ls_req+0x21b/0x2b0 [qla2xxx]

__nvme_fc_send_ls_req+0x1b5/0x350 [nvme_fc]

nvme_fc_xmt_disconnect_assoc+0xca/0x110 [nvme_fc]

nvme_fc_delete_association+0x1bf/0x220 [nvme_fc]

? nvme_remove_namespaces+0x9f/0x140 [nvme_core]

nvme_do_delete_ctrl+0x5b/0xa0 [nvme_core]

nvme_sysfs_delete+0x5f/0x70 [nvme_core]

kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12b/0x1c0

vfs_write+0x2a3/0x3b0

ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0

do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x90

? syscall_exit_work+0x103/0x130

? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x30

? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x90

? exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xd0/0x130

? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xec/0x100

? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x30

? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x90

? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x30

? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x90

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

RIP: 0033:0x7f815cd3eb97

The IOCB counts are out of order and that would block any commands from

going out and subsequently hang the system. Synchronize the IOCB count to

be in correct order.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00201 · 9.5th percentile
Published
2025-05-02T15:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 MAY 15:55Z
    scsi: qla2xxx: Synchronize the IOCB count to be in order
    cvelistv5