High 8.8Published Oct 4, 2025

CVE-2022-50493scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash when I/O abort times out

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 6:23 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash when I/O abort times out While performing CPU hotplug, a crash with the following stack was seen: Call Trace: qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x42a/0x970 [qla2xxx] qla2x00_start_nvme_mq+0x3a2/0x4b0 [qla2xxx] qla_nvme_post_cmd+0x166/0x240 [qla2xxx] nvme_fc_start_fcp_op.part.0+0x119/0x2e0 [nvme_fc] blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x17b/0x610 __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xb0/0x140 blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x30/0x60 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x35/0x90 __blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x161/0x180 blk_execute_rq+0xbe/0x160 __nvme_submit_sync_cmd+0x16f/0x220 [nvme_core] nvmf_connect_admin_queue+0x11a/0x170 [nvme_fabrics] nvme_fc_create_association.cold+0x50/0x3dc [nvme_fc] nvme_fc_connect_ctrl_work+0x19/0x30 [nvme_fc] process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0 On abort timeout, completion was called without checking if the I/O was already completed. Verify that I/O and abort request are indeed outstanding before attempting completion.

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 15, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	71c80b75ce8f08c0978ce9a9816b81b5c3ce5e12 builds before 5f730e489e741c28fe6a5b3308e33c094462acb0; from 71c80b75ce8f08c0978ce9a9816b81b5c3ce5e12 before d3871af13aa03fbbe7fbb812eaf140501229a72e; from 71c80b75ce8f08c0978ce9a9816b81b5c3ce5e12 before cb4dff498468b62e8c520568559b3a9007e104d7; from 71c80b75ce8f08c0978ce9a9816b81b5c3ce5e12 before 05382ed9142cf8a8a3fb662224477eecc415778b; 71c80b75ce8f08c0978ce9a9816b81b5c3ce5e12 builds before 68ad83188d782b2ecef2e41ac245d27e0710fe8e; 457173c8b43ecd3ac48c8ace8d4437a50f7ad77b; b7abcc7df5e131c0b4bf89cb2411c5301ee83d26; from 5.3.17 before 5.4; and 1 more ranges	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 5.3.17 before 5.4; from 5.4.4 before 5.15.86; from 5.16 before 6.0.16; from 6.1 before 6.1.2	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f730e489e741c28fe6a5b3308e33c094462acb0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3871af13aa03fbbe7fbb812eaf140501229a72e	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb4dff498468b62e8c520568559b3a9007e104d7	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05382ed9142cf8a8a3fb662224477eecc415778b	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68ad83188d782b2ecef2e41ac245d27e0710fe8e	patch

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