Bug 2507147 (CVE-2026-64475) - CVE-2026-64475 kernel: vfio/pci: Release the VGA arbiter client on register_device() failure
Summary: CVE-2026-64475 kernel: vfio/pci: Release the VGA arbiter client on register_d...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64475
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-25 10:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-29 16:03 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-25 10:07:31 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vfio/pci: Release the VGA arbiter client on register_device() failure

The re-order in the Fixes commit below displaced vfio_pci_vga_init() as
the last failure point of what is now vfio_pci_core_register_device()
without introducing an unwind for the VGA arbiter registration.

In current kernels this is mostly benign because vfio_pci_set_decode()
only uses pci_dev state, but the original failure path could leave a
callback with a freed vdev cookie.  The stale registration also becomes
unsafe again once the callback follows drvdata to the vfio device.

Add the required VGA unwind callout.


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