CVE-2026-80620 in Linux
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di MITRE • 28/08/2026
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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