# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89850"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:24.121Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:53:43.182Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89850"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89850.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89850"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Don't query firmware state while chip is down"
summary: "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."
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