# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97537"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:35.608Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:12.722Z"
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-2026-97537"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97537.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97537"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Fix queue teardown NULL dma_free and bitmap locking"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Fix queue teardown NULL dma_free and bitmap locking\n\nqla25xx_free_req_que() and qla25xx_free_rsp_que() have two pre-existing\nbugs exposed on the error path of qla25xx_create_{req,rsp}_que():\n\n 1. When dma_alloc_coherent() fails during queue creation, the error\n    path calls the free function with req-\u003ering / rsp-\u003ering still NULL\n    (from kzalloc).  The unconditional dma_free_coherent() with a NULL\n    cpu_addr is undefined behavior and can panic.\n\n 2. The free functions clear req_qid_map / rsp_qid_map under vport_lock,\n    but the create functions protect the same bitmaps with mq_lock.\n    This provides no mutual exclusion.  Additionally, the create error\n    path clears the bit and releases mq_lock before calling the free\n    function, creating a window where another thread can allocate the\n    same que_id and have its ha-\u003ereq_q_map entry clobbered by the\n    subsequent lockless NULL assignment in the free function.\n\nFix by:\n\n - Guarding dma_free_coherent() with a NULL check on the ring pointer.\n\n - Using mq_lock (the lock held by all creators) in the free functions\n   to atomically NULL the map entry and clear the bitmap bit.\n\n - Removing the now-redundant clear_bit blocks from the create error\n   paths since the free functions handle it atomically."
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