Bug 2525404 (CVE-2026-80620) - CVE-2026-80620 kernel: Revert "PCI/MSI: Unmap MSI-X region on error"
Summary: CVE-2026-80620 kernel: Revert "PCI/MSI: Unmap MSI-X region on error"
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80620
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-28 07:43 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-03 15:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 07:43:17 UTC
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.


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