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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97527"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:29.521Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:02.776Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97527"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97527.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97527"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Serialize NVMe unsol ctx list with a per-fcport lock"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Serialize NVMe unsol ctx list with a per-fcport lock\n\nThe fcport-\u003eunsol_ctx_head list is modified from several contexts without\na common lock. Entries are added in qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb() from the\nresponse queue ISR (under the qpair qp_lock), while they are removed from\nqla2xxx_process_purls_pkt() (DPC/purex worker), qla_nvme_xmt_ls_rsp()\n(NVMe-FC transport callback) and qla_nvme_release_lsrsp_cmd_kref() (SRB\ncompletion). The qpair qp_lock cannot serialize this per-fcport list since\nmultiqueue adapters add entries through different qpairs, so a concurrent\nadd and delete (or two concurrent deletes) can corrupt the list pointers.\n\nIntroduce a dedicated per-fcport spinlock, unsol_ctx_lock, initialized in\nqla2x00_alloc_fcport(), and take it around every list_add_tail()/list_del()\non unsol_ctx_head. The add nests under the existing qp_lock; no delete path\ntakes qp_lock, so the lock order is consistent and deadlock free."
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