CVE-2023-53280 (GCVE-0-2023-53280)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 08:11 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:41
VLAI
Title
scsi: qla2xxx: Remove unused nvme_ls_waitq wait queue
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Remove unused nvme_ls_waitq wait queue System crash when qla2x00_start_sp(sp) returns error code EGAIN and wake_up gets called for uninitialized wait queue sp->nvme_ls_waitq. qla2xxx [0000:37:00.1]-2121:5: Returning existing qpair of ffff8ae2c0513400 for idx=0 qla2xxx [0000:37:00.1]-700e:5: qla2x00_start_sp failed = 11 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10/ProLiant DL360 Gen10, BIOS U32 09/03/2021 Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_fc_connect_ctrl_work [nvme_fc] RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x4c/0x190 RSP: 0018:ffff95f3e0cb7cd0 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8b08d3b26328 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff8b08d3b26320 RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffffffffffe8 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff95f3e0cb7a60 R12: ffff95f3e0cb7d20 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8b2fdf6c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000002f1e410002 CR4: 00000000007706e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: __wake_up_common_lock+0x7c/0xc0 qla_nvme_ls_req+0x355/0x4c0 [qla2xxx] ? __nvme_fc_send_ls_req+0x260/0x380 [nvme_fc] ? nvme_fc_send_ls_req.constprop.42+0x1a/0x45 [nvme_fc] ? nvme_fc_connect_ctrl_work.cold.63+0x1e3/0xa7d [nvme_fc] Remove unused nvme_ls_waitq wait queue. nvme_ls_waitq logic was removed previously in the commits tagged Fixed: below.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-14 18:08 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5621b0dd74532c09965264c14958de3f85b498a6 , < b7084ebf4f54d46fed5153112d685f4137334175 (git)
Affected: 5621b0dd74532c09965264c14958de3f85b498a6 , < 0b1ce92fabdb7d02ddf8641230a06e2752ae5baa (git)
Affected: 5621b0dd74532c09965264c14958de3f85b498a6 , < 522ee1b3030f3b6b5fd59489d12b4ca767c9e5da (git)
Affected: 5621b0dd74532c09965264c14958de3f85b498a6 , < f459d586fdf12c53116c9fddf43065165fdd5969 (git)
Affected: 5621b0dd74532c09965264c14958de3f85b498a6 , < 92529387a0066754fd9cda080fb3298b8cca750c (git)
Affected: 5621b0dd74532c09965264c14958de3f85b498a6 , < 20fce500b232b970e40312a9c97e7f3b6d7a709c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.251 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.40 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.5 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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