CVE-2026-98262 PUBLISHED

ata: libahci: clear PxCLBU and PxFBU for AHCI_HFLAG_32BIT_ONLY

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

ata: libahci: clear PxCLBU and PxFBU for AHCI_HFLAG_32BIT_ONLY

A user reported that commit 105c42566a55 ("ata: ahci: force 32-bit DMA for JMicron JMB582/JMB585") made the JMicron JMB585 unusable on his board.

The failure is seen as soon as the ahci driver is probed, and booting with iommu=off does not solve the problem.

Looking at the AHCI specification, PxCLBU and PxFBU are both read only '0' for HBAs that do not support 64-bit addressing.

For HBAs that do support 64-bit addressing, the registers are read write, with a reset value that is Implementation Specific.

When using the AHCI_HFLAG_32BIT_ONLY flag, the HBA does support 64-bit addressing, and a 32-bit DMA mask is set by simply clearing HOST_CAP_64. Thus, in this case, we need to explicitly clear the registers to 0.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c to 0191c9ff23ef1678dbfb5ad253a2dee92feb5d71 (excl.)
  • affected from c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c to 8f510f68208a1f673d7c7234a687be4671490e9c (excl.)
  • affected from c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c to 4719424bb7cb9f20b73986bcb72dd528f0e5c6eb (excl.)
  • affected from c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c to a5a8b4737f68bbac8aa0685af0c8921e6003c22b (excl.)
  • affected from c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c to b28a17d4a9bb0aa38b48681c3927b012ba40eabe (excl.)
  • affected from c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c to b691a3e244278362e552439d6d3ee5a5d3703488 (excl.)
  • affected from c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c to 7912ad8fb5233bb8cfe21d50df639c7f4854ff9d (excl.)
  • affected from c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c to 82e47533221d4746947b74d2e79a478c36c6433a (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.22 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.22 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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