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

scsi: qla2xxx: Reserve extra IRQ vectors

Commit a6dcfe08487e (“scsi: qla2xxx: Limit interrupt vectors to number of
CPUs”) lowers the number of allocated MSI-X vectors to the number of CPUs.

That breaks vector allocation assumptions in qla83xx_iospace_config(),
qla24xx_enable_msix() and qla2x00_iospace_config(). Either of the functions
computes maximum number of qpairs as:

ha->max_qpairs = ha->msix_count – 1 (MB interrupt) – 1 (default

               response queue) - 1 (ATIO, in dual or pure target mode)

max_qpairs is set to zero in case of two CPUs and initiator mode. The
number is then used to allocate ha->queue_pair_map inside
qla2x00_alloc_queues(). No allocation happens and ha->queue_pair_map is
left NULL but the driver thinks there are queue pairs available.

qla2xxx_queuecommand() tries to find a qpair in the map and crashes:

if (ha->mqenable) {

      uint32_t tag;
      uint16_t hwq;
      struct qla_qpair *qpair = NULL;

      tag = blk_mq_unique_tag(cmd->request);
      hwq = blk_mq_unique_tag_to_hwq(tag);
      qpair = ha->queue_pair_map[hwq]; # <- HERE

      if (qpair)
              return qla2xxx_mqueuecommand(host, cmd, qpair);

}

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) – not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 72 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Tainted: G W 5.10.0-rc1+ #25
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: scsi_wq_7 fc_scsi_scan_rport [scsi_transport_fc]
RIP: 0010:qla2xxx_queuecommand+0x16b/0x3f0 [qla2xxx]
Call Trace:
scsi_queue_rq+0x58c/0xa60
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x2b7/0x6f0
? __sbitmap_get_word+0x2a/0x80
__blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xb8/0x170
blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x2b/0x50
__blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x49/0xb0
__blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0xfb/0x150
blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0xbe/0x110
blk_execute_rq+0x45/0x70
__scsi_execute+0x10e/0x250
scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x228/0xda0
__scsi_scan_target+0xf4/0x620
? __pm_runtime_resume+0x4f/0x70
scsi_scan_target+0x100/0x110
fc_scsi_scan_rport+0xa1/0xb0 [scsi_transport_fc]
process_one_work+0x1ea/0x3b0
worker_thread+0x28/0x3b0
? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
kthread+0x112/0x130
? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

The driver should allocate enough vectors to provide every CPU it’s own HW
queue and still handle reserved (MB, RSP, ATIO) interrupts.

The change fixes the crash on dual core VM and prevents unbalanced QP
allocation where nr_hw_queues is two less than the number of CPUs.