{"id":"CVE-2026-89850","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"scsi: qla2xxx: Don't query firmware state while chip is down","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Don't query firmware state while chip is down\n\nqla2x00_fw_state_show() initializes rval to QLA_FUNCTION_FAILED and jumps\nto the out: label when the chip is down or EEH is busy. The out: block\nthen re-issued qla2x00_get_firmware_state() because rval != QLA_SUCCESS,\ndefeating the chip-down/EEH-busy guards and issuing a mailbox command\n(outside optrom_mutex) during ISP reset or PCI error recovery, which can\nhang the adapter. It also turned a normal in-lock mailbox failure into a\nsecond unsynchronized mailbox attempt.\n\nMake the out: fallback only mark the firmware state as unknown. The\nmailbox is now issued at most once, inside optrom_mutex, and only when\nthe chip is up and not EEH-busy.","publishedAt":"2026-09-16T10:31:24.121Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T08:53:43.182Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux Linux"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"b6faaaf796d7bfb00e32ca5c905d55cc43e89448","status":"affected","lessThan":"178d984e8875292582e4295cf559b2b11d3c9325","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b6faaaf796d7bfb00e32ca5c905d55cc43e89448","status":"affected","lessThan":"cba780c01f72f8585ca81ad7304097f8b12ef339","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b6faaaf796d7bfb00e32ca5c905d55cc43e89448","status":"affected","lessThan":"22f44f77da496bc355479c08a0a9dbc9ad42ba42","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b6faaaf796d7bfb00e32ca5c905d55cc43e89448","status":"affected","lessThan":"b6a30baa29695fa0eaba4a3a04435a3c1a5cb63d","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b6faaaf796d7bfb00e32ca5c905d55cc43e89448","status":"affected","lessThan":"7bc2baed8a3d6a1e2a3f6b78d245f25d1e18a749","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b6faaaf796d7bfb00e32ca5c905d55cc43e89448","status":"affected","lessThan":"a194684853dceaa1d6b7a9a02bc12f479232ad9b","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b6faaaf796d7bfb00e32ca5c905d55cc43e89448","status":"affected","lessThan":"a6374b508893de15fee78583a95f5099d7812e85","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b6faaaf796d7bfb00e32ca5c905d55cc43e89448","status":"affected","lessThan":"e0cebe20dcffbed9c078fe30e2d18cd5046d9eff","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"4.20","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.10.270","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.221","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.1.188","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c"]}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/178d984e8875292582e4295cf559b2b11d3c9325","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cba780c01f72f8585ca81ad7304097f8b12ef339","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22f44f77da496bc355479c08a0a9dbc9ad42ba42","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6a30baa29695fa0eaba4a3a04435a3c1a5cb63d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7bc2baed8a3d6a1e2a3f6b78d245f25d1e18a749","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a194684853dceaa1d6b7a9a02bc12f479232ad9b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6374b508893de15fee78583a95f5099d7812e85","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0cebe20dcffbed9c078fe30e2d18cd5046d9eff"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:13:26.108Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89850.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-89850","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-09-16T10:31:24.121Z","dateUpdated":"2026-10-19T08:53:43.182Z","assignerShortName":"Linux","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateReserved":"2026-09-11T19:38:34.770Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"scsi: qla2xxx: Don't query firmware state while chip is down","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Don't query firmware state while chip is down\n\nqla2x00_fw_state_show() initializes rval to QLA_FUNCTION_FAILED and jumps\nto the out: label when the chip is down or EEH is busy. 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