# CVE-2024-42289: scsi: qla2xxx: During vport delete send async logout explicitly

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.15, 4.18
- Published: 2024-08-17 · Updated: 2026-05-23

## Affected

- Linux: from 4.14.62, fixed in 4.15; from 4.17.14, fixed in 4.18
- Linux: 4.18

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: During vport delete send async logout explicitly During vport delete, it is observed that during unload we hit a crash because of stale entries in outstanding command array. For all these stale I/O entries, eh_abort was issued and aborted (fast_fail_io = 2009h) but I/Os could not complete while vport delete is in process of deleting. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001c #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI Workqueue: qla2xxx_wq qla_do_work [qla2xxx] RIP: 0010:dma_direct_unmap_sg+0x51/0x1e0 RSP: 0018:ffffa1e1e150fc68 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000021 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000021 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8ce208a7a0d0 RBP: ffff8ce208a7a0d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8ce378aac9c8 R10: ffff8ce378aac8a0 R11: ffffa1e1e150f9d8 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8ce378aac9c8 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8d217f000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000000000001c CR3: 0000002089acc000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 Call Trace: <TASK> qla2xxx_qpair_sp_free_dma+0x417/0x4e0 ? qla2xxx_qpair_sp_compl+0x10d/0x1a0 ? qla2x00_status_entry+0x768/0x2830 ? newidle_balance+0x2f0/0x430 ? dequeue_entity+0x100/0x3c0 ? qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x6a1/0x19e0 ? __schedule+0x2d5/0x1140 ? qla_do_work+0x47/0x60 ? process_one_work+0x267/0x440 ? process_one_work+0x440/0x440 ? worker_thread+0x2d/0x3d0 ? process_one_work+0x440/0x440 ? kthread+0x156/0x180 ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50 ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK> Send out async logout explicitly for all the ports during vport delete.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (4.15, 4.18) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/086489256696eb774654a5410e86381c346356fe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/171ac4b495f9473bc134356a00095b47e6409e52
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5ed6a26ffdec0c91cf0b6138afbd675c00ad5fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b12c54e51ba83c1fbc619d35083d7872e42ecdef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d28a2075bb530489715a3b011e1dd8765ba20313
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87c25fcb95aafabb6a4914239f4ab41b07a4f9b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b35d6d5a2f38605cddea7d5c64cded894fbe8ede
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76f480d7c717368f29a3870f7d64471ce0ff8fb2

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