CVE-2026-90233 PUBLISHED

nvme-pci: release descriptor pools on probe failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

nvme-pci: release descriptor pools on probe failure

The per-NUMA-node descriptor DMA pools are created lazily from nvme_init_hctx_common() once the admin tag set is allocated, but they are only destroyed in nvme_remove() via nvme_release_descriptor_pools(). Any probe failure after the admin tag set has been allocated unwinds through the out_disable label and nvme_pci_free_ctrl(), neither of which releases the pools, leaking the dma_pool objects.

Release the descriptor pools in the out_disable error path. It must not be added to nvme_pci_free_ctrl(), as that would double-free against nvme_remove() on the normal teardown path.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from d977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea to c25b6b28a35f9e36ce5dd6da5905bcddb2128707 (excl.)
  • affected from d977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea to 79fb405966edb5065234440d94cc75bfd7b01f41 (excl.)
  • affected from d977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea to cb144c2f67128abfa5c7ba33318617d19f192156 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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