CVE-2026-80620 PUBLISHED

Revert "PCI/MSI: Unmap MSI-X region on error"

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

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

Revert "PCI/MSI: Unmap MSI-X region on error"

This reverts commit 1a8d4c6ecb4c81261bcdf13556abd4a958eca202.

Commit 1a8d4c6ecb4c ("PCI/MSI: Unmap MSI-X region on error") added an iounmap(dev->msix_base) on the error path of msix_capability_init() to release the MSI-X region when msix_setup_interrupts() fails.

When msix_setup_interrupts() fails, the call chain is:

msix_setup_interrupts() -> __msix_setup_interrupts() struct pci_dev *dev __free(free_msi_irqs) = __dev; ... return ret; // __free cleanup fires on error

The __free(free_msi_irqs) cleanup calls pci_free_msi_irqs(), which already handles the unmap:

void pci_free_msi_irqs(struct pci_dev *dev) { pci_msi_teardown_msi_irqs(dev); if (dev->msix_base) { iounmap(dev->msix_base); // already unmapped here dev->msix_base = NULL; // and set to NULL } }

So dev->msix_base is unmapped and set to NULL before msix_setup_interrupts() returns to msix_capability_init(). The "goto out_unmap" introduced by commit 1a8d4c6ecb4c ("PCI/MSI: Unmap MSI-X region on error") then calls iounmap() a second time on a NULL pointer.

This was reproduced on Intel Emerald Rapids (192 CPUs) while running tools/testing/selftests/kexec/test_kexec_jump.sh:

WARNING: CPU#44 at iounmap+0x2a/0xe0 RIP: 0010:iounmap+0x2a/0xe0 RDI: 0000000000000000 Call Trace: msix_capability_init+0x317/0x3f0 __pci_enable_msix_range+0x21d/0x2c0 pci_alloc_irq_vectors_affinity+0xa9/0x130 nvme_setup_io_queues+0x2a8/0x420 [nvme] nvme_reset_work+0x151/0x340 [nvme] ...

RDI=0 confirms iounmap() is called with NULL.

Restore the original "goto out_disable" and leave the unmap to the existing __free(free_msi_irqs) cleanup.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4a7589b615a3db6792d36b874add86cd22188c95 to 82e120a7dd566c476ba923d30e3fb78e8118a1dd (excl.)
  • affected from 5f007c6acaa7d9a543b492c1e48c48a0ea1d7147 to 6848ca381edff84f87dd1b6973848c271541e813 (excl.)
  • affected from 76f7abd4ee0188f06465bdd3c053fdc5e8595152 to 0a2aeb02894b839ecc3ece6dc7e5c3d6c3def16f (excl.)
  • affected from aee8db5f048616990dbdefcc25689ade0a2620ec to f79519f636059b007d6abc91652f36dea4f54a20 (excl.)
  • affected from 1a8d4c6ecb4c81261bcdf13556abd4a958eca202 to 3691a82be2095abaf3326a1cbf7b25858a1d959c (excl.)
  • affected from 1a8d4c6ecb4c81261bcdf13556abd4a958eca202 to f64e03da0d83cb173743888bff4a7e61476a8fc2 (excl.)
  • Version 19bf27b450fcd5309bacd614b12bd7de1ac6535b is affected
  • affected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.178 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.145 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.97 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.18.16 to 6.18.40 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.19.6 to 6.20 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.97 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.40 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.5 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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