Bug 2546533 (CVE-2026-98262) - CVE-2026-98262 kernel: ata: libahci: clear PxCLBU and PxFBU for AHCI_HFLAG_32BIT_ONLY
Summary: CVE-2026-98262 kernel: ata: libahci: clear PxCLBU and PxFBU for AHCI_HFLAG_32...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98262
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-09 07:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:39:56 UTC
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.


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