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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43054" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-01T14:15:47.396Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:16:49.357Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43054" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43054.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43054" title: "scsi: target: tcm_loop: Drain commands in target_reset handler" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: tcm_loop: Drain commands in target_reset handler\n\ntcm_loop_target_reset() violates the SCSI EH contract: it returns SUCCESS\nwithout draining any in-flight commands. The SCSI EH documentation\n(scsi_eh.rst) requires that when a reset handler returns SUCCESS the driver\nhas made lower layers \"forget about timed out scmds\" and is ready for new\ncommands. Every other SCSI LLD (virtio_scsi, mpt3sas, ipr, scsi_debug,\nmpi3mr) enforces this by draining or completing outstanding commands before\nreturning SUCCESS.\n\nBecause tcm_loop_target_reset() doesn't drain, the SCSI EH reuses in-flight\nscsi_cmnd structures for recovery commands (e.g. TUR) while the target core\nstill has async completion work queued for the old se_cmd. The memset in\nqueuecommand zeroes se_lun and lun_ref_active, causing\ntransport_lun_remove_cmd() to skip its percpu_ref_put(). The leaked LUN\nreference prevents transport_clear_lun_ref() from completing, hanging\nconfigfs LUN unlink forever in D-state:\n\n INFO: task rm:264 blocked for more than 122 seconds.\n rm D 0 264 258 0x00004000\n Call Trace:\n __schedule+0x3d0/0x8e0\n schedule+0x36/0xf0\n transport_clear_lun_ref+0x78/0x90 [target_core_mod]\n core_tpg_remove_lun+0x28/0xb0 [target_core_mod]\n target_fabric_port_unlink+0x50/0x60 [target_core_mod]\n configfs_unlink+0x156/0x1f0 [configfs]\n vfs_unlink+0x109/0x290\n do_unlinkat+0x1d5/0x2d0\n\nFix this by making tcm_loop_target_reset() actually drain commands:\n\n 1. Issue TMR_LUN_RESET via tcm_loop_issue_tmr() to drain all commands that\n the target core knows about (those not yet CMD_T_COMPLETE).\n\n 2. Use blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter() to iterate all started requests and\n flush_work() on each se_cmd — this drains any deferred completion work\n for commands that already had CMD_T_COMPLETE set before the TMR (which\n the TMR skips via __target_check_io_state()). This is the same pattern\n used by mpi3mr, scsi_debug, and libsas to drain outstanding commands\n during reset." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e0eb5d38b732b011cd9ed5b1bf9f59b83c2500d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"757c43c692294cdfad31390accc0e90429b2ef8a"},{"version":"e0eb5d38b732b011cd9ed5b1bf9f59b83c2500d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"103f79e4949513247d763c6e7f3cbbf62017afdf"},{"version":"e0eb5d38b732b011cd9ed5b1bf9f59b83c2500d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"15f5241d5a52364a7e7867b49128b0442dbcad9d"},{"version":"e0eb5d38b732b011cd9ed5b1bf9f59b83c2500d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7cbd69aaa507b1245240a28022bf5da0f07c68d9"},{"version":"e0eb5d38b732b011cd9ed5b1bf9f59b83c2500d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a836054ea81014117ec6b73529a21626a9e1f829"},{"version":"e0eb5d38b732b011cd9ed5b1bf9f59b83c2500d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05ac3754467363558a0a54ae4bb7c89b2c9574cf"},{"version":"e0eb5d38b732b011cd9ed5b1bf9f59b83c2500d3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1333eee56cdf3f0cf67c6ab4114c2c9e0a952026"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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