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GHSA-6PP9-R78Q-5HWX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-14 15:32 – Updated: 2026-03-18 15:30

Details

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

ice: add missing ice_deinit_hw() in devlink reinit path

devlink-reload results in ice_init_hw failed error, and then removing the ice driver causes a NULL pointer dereference.

[ +0.102213] ice 0000:ca:00.0: ice_init_hw failed: -16 ... [ +0.000001] Call Trace: [ +0.000003] [ +0.000006] ice_unload+0x8f/0x100 [ice] [ +0.000081] ice_remove+0xba/0x300 [ice]

Commit 1390b8b3d2be ("ice: remove duplicate call to ice_deinit_hw() on error paths") removed ice_deinit_hw() from ice_deinit_dev(). As a result ice_devlink_reinit_down() no longer calls ice_deinit_hw(), but ice_devlink_reinit_up() still calls ice_init_hw(). Since the control queues are not uninitialized, ice_init_hw() fails with -EBUSY.

Add ice_deinit_hw() to ice_devlink_reinit_down() to correspond with ice_init_hw() in ice_devlink_reinit_up().

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "modified": "2026-03-18T15:30:40Z",
  "published": "2026-02-14T15:32:18Z",
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CVE-2026-23117 (GCVE-0-2026-23117)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-14 15:09 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:00

Title

ice: add missing ice_deinit_hw() in devlink reinit path

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: add missing ice_deinit_hw() in devlink reinit path devlink-reload results in ice_init_hw failed error, and then removing the ice driver causes a NULL pointer dereference. [ +0.102213] ice 0000:ca:00.0: ice_init_hw failed: -16 ... [ +0.000001] Call Trace: [ +0.000003] <TASK> [ +0.000006] ice_unload+0x8f/0x100 [ice] [ +0.000081] ice_remove+0xba/0x300 [ice] Commit 1390b8b3d2be ("ice: remove duplicate call to ice_deinit_hw() on error paths") removed ice_deinit_hw() from ice_deinit_dev(). As a result ice_devlink_reinit_down() no longer calls ice_deinit_hw(), but ice_devlink_reinit_up() still calls ice_init_hw(). Since the control queues are not uninitialized, ice_init_hw() fails with -EBUSY. Add ice_deinit_hw() to ice_devlink_reinit_down() to correspond with ice_init_hw() in ice_devlink_reinit_up().

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3d99e2fbf01446d3…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42fb5f3deb582cb96…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: c91eee346089e4d287d5a111719e57cac605275e , < a3d99e2fbf01446d31a0d0dfc46444e915a1f6d4 (git) Affected: 1390b8b3d2bef9bfbb852fc735430798bfca36e7 , < 42fb5f3deb582cb96440e4683745017dbabb83d6 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.18.2 , < 6.18.8 (semver)

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