linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-71235: scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress

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Message-ID: <2026021805-CVE-2025-71235-b233@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:54:06 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-71235: scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress

System crash seen during load/unload test in a loop.

[105954.384919] RBP: ffff914589838dc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000086
[105954.384920] R10: 000000000000000f R11: ffffa31240904be5 R12: ffff914605f868e0
[105954.384921] R13: ffff914605f86910 R14: 0000000000008010 R15: 00000000ddb7c000
[105954.384923] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9163fec40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[105954.384925] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[105954.384926] CR2: 000055d31ce1d6a0 CR3: 0000000119f5e001 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[105954.384928] PKRU: 55555554
[105954.384929] Call Trace:
[105954.384931]  <IRQ>
[105954.384934]  qla24xx_sp_unmap+0x1f3/0x2a0 [qla2xxx]
[105954.384962]  ? qla_async_scan_sp_done+0x114/0x1f0 [qla2xxx]
[105954.384980]  ? qla24xx_els_ct_entry+0x4de/0x760 [qla2xxx]
[105954.384999]  ? __wake_up_common+0x80/0x190
[105954.385004]  ? qla24xx_process_response_queue+0xc2/0xaa0 [qla2xxx]
[105954.385023]  ? qla24xx_msix_rsp_q+0x44/0xb0 [qla2xxx]
[105954.385040]  ? __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x3d/0x190
[105954.385044]  ? handle_irq_event+0x58/0xb0
[105954.385046]  ? handle_edge_irq+0x93/0x240
[105954.385050]  ? __common_interrupt+0x41/0xa0
[105954.385055]  ? common_interrupt+0x3e/0xa0
[105954.385060]  ? asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40

The root cause of this was that there was a free (dma_free_attrs) in the
interrupt context.  There was a device discovery/fabric scan in
progress.  A module unload was issued which set the UNLOADING flag.  As
part of the discovery, after receiving an interrupt a work queue was
scheduled (which involved a work to be queued).  Since the UNLOADING
flag is set, the work item was not allocated and the mapped memory had
to be freed.  The free occurred in interrupt context leading to system
crash.  Delay the driver unload until the fabric scan is complete to
avoid the crash.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-71235 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.6.125 with commit 528b2f1027edfb52af0171f0f4b227fb356dde05
	Fixed in 6.12.72 with commit d70f71d4c92bcb8b6a21ac62d4ea3e87721f4f32
	Fixed in 6.18.11 with commit c068ebbaf52820d6bdefb9b405a1e426663c635a
	Fixed in 6.19.1 with commit 7062eb0c488f35730334daad9495d9265c574853

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-71235
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/528b2f1027edfb52af0171f0f4b227fb356dde05
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d70f71d4c92bcb8b6a21ac62d4ea3e87721f4f32
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c068ebbaf52820d6bdefb9b405a1e426663c635a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7062eb0c488f35730334daad9495d9265c574853
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8890bf450e0b6b283f48ac619fca5ac2f14ddd62