CVE-2026-97535 PUBLISHED

scsi: qla2xxx: Bound VP index against VP_CTRL IOCB bitmap size

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 24.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Bound VP index against VP_CTRL IOCB bitmap size

The VP control IOCB selects its target virtual port by setting one bit in vp_idx_map, a fixed 16-byte (128-bit) array in both vp_ctrl_entry_24xx and vp_ctrl_entry_24xx_ext. qla25xx_ctrlvp_iocb() computes map = (vp_index - 1) / 8 and writes vce->vp_idx_map[map] without checking that map stays within the array.

max_npiv_vports is taken from firmware and only sanitized to a MIN_MULTI_ID_FABRIC-aligned boundary, so it can legitimately be 191 or 255, and qla24xx_control_vp() only rejects vp_index >= max_npiv_vports. A vp_index above 128 therefore yields map >= 16 and an out-of-bounds write of up to 16 bytes past vp_idx_map, corrupting the trailing IOCB fields (or the adjacent request-ring slot on the 64-byte layout).

Reject a vp_index that cannot be represented in the IOCB bitmap in qla24xx_control_vp(), and add a defensive ARRAY_SIZE() guard in qla25xx_ctrlvp_iocb() before the write. Adapters that report the usual 63 or 127 NPIV vports are unaffected.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2853192e154b813fe34a6cbee5e34dfef50d29d0 to 48a44e19746eaa70320a3c2571dcb345192fca72 (excl.)
  • affected from 2853192e154b813fe34a6cbee5e34dfef50d29d0 to 13354ad251ab009102597a791bc7c4d2265229e1 (excl.)
  • affected from 2853192e154b813fe34a6cbee5e34dfef50d29d0 to 878613ecb5a36db26859c4fd83daf9283a334fa2 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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