CVE-2026-23117 PUBLISHED

ice: add missing ice_deinit_hw() in devlink reinit path

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.01.2026 Published: 14.02.2026 Updated: 14.02.2026

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

ice: add missing ice_deinit_hw() in devlink reinit path

devlink-reload results in ice_init_hw failed error, and then removing the ice driver causes a NULL pointer dereference.

[ +0.102213] ice 0000:ca:00.0: ice_init_hw failed: -16 ... [ +0.000001] Call Trace: [ +0.000003] <TASK> [ +0.000006] ice_unload+0x8f/0x100 [ice] [ +0.000081] ice_remove+0xba/0x300 [ice]

Commit 1390b8b3d2be ("ice: remove duplicate call to ice_deinit_hw() on error paths") removed ice_deinit_hw() from ice_deinit_dev(). As a result ice_devlink_reinit_down() no longer calls ice_deinit_hw(), but ice_devlink_reinit_up() still calls ice_init_hw(). Since the control queues are not uninitialized, ice_init_hw() fails with -EBUSY.

Add ice_deinit_hw() to ice_devlink_reinit_down() to correspond with ice_init_hw() in ice_devlink_reinit_up().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c91eee346089e4d287d5a111719e57cac605275e to a3d99e2fbf01446d31a0d0dfc46444e915a1f6d4 (excl.)
  • affected from 1390b8b3d2bef9bfbb852fc735430798bfca36e7 to 42fb5f3deb582cb96440e4683745017dbabb83d6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6.18.2 to 6.18.8 (excl.)

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