From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-97409: nvme-fc: Do not cancel requests in io target before it is initialized
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:03:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026092425-CVE-2026-97409-0829@gregkh> (raw)
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-fc: Do not cancel requests in io target before it is initialized
A new nvme-fc controller in CONNECTING state sees admin request timeout
schedules ctrl->ioerr_work to abort inflight requests. This ends up
calling __nvme_fc_abort_outstanding_ios() which aborts requests in both
admin and io tagsets. In case fc_ctrl->tag_set was not initialized we
see the warning below. This is because ctrl.queue_count is initialized
early in nvme_fc_alloc_ctrl().
nvme nvme0: NVME-FC{0}: starting error recovery Connectivity Loss
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
lpfc 0000:ab:00.0: queue 0 connect admin queue failed (-6).
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
Workqueue: nvme-reset-wq nvme_fc_ctrl_ioerr_work [nvme_fc]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x80
register_lock_class+0x567/0x580
__lock_acquire+0x330/0xb90
lock_acquire.part.0+0xad/0x210
blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter+0xf9/0xc00
__nvme_fc_abort_outstanding_ios+0x23f/0x320 [nvme_fc]
nvme_fc_ctrl_ioerr_work+0x172/0x210 [nvme_fc]
process_one_work+0x82c/0x1450
worker_thread+0x5ee/0xfd0
kthread+0x3a0/0x750
ret_from_fork+0x439/0x670
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Update the check in __nvme_fc_abort_outstanding_ios() confirm that io
tagset was created before iterating over busy requests. Also make sure
to cancel ctrl->ioerr_work before removing io tagset.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-97409 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Fixed in 6.12.111 with commit da930308b4bc24c335574e85ca84ff70a988cf05
Fixed in 6.18.53 with commit dd39064d2948b14dbe4f364fe4b3c9cfc632cc21
Fixed in 7.2 with commit ee38469f88492df99e1d97f03aa40ecfd218934f
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-2026-97409
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/nvme/host/fc.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/da930308b4bc24c335574e85ca84ff70a988cf05
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd39064d2948b14dbe4f364fe4b3c9cfc632cc21
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee38469f88492df99e1d97f03aa40ecfd218934f
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