CVE-2026-80917

PCI: host-generic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on 32-bit CAM systems

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 9, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

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Description

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

PCI: host-generic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on 32-bit CAM systems

On 32-bit systems the config space is too large to ioremap in one go, so pci_ecam_create() maps each bus segment separately and relies on the ->add_bus callback (pci_ecam_add_bus) to populate the per-bus mapping in cfg->winp[]. pci_ecam_map_bus() then uses that mapping as the base for every config access.

The generic ECAM ops (pci_generic_ecam_ops) already provide the ->add_bus and ->remove_bus callbacks, but the CAM (legacy) ops in pci-host-generic.c do not. As a result, on a 32-bit host using "pci-host-cam-generic" the per-bus mapping is never set up and the first config read dereferences a NULL base, crashing during bus enumeration:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000800 Oops [#1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.9.7+ #43 Hardware name: Digilent Nexys-Video-A7 RV32 (DT) epc : pci_generic_config_read+0x40/0xb0 ra : pci_generic_config_read+0x2c/0xb0 [<c038db9c>] pci_generic_config_read+0x40/0xb0 [<c038da04>] pci_bus_read_config_dword+0x50/0xb0 [<c0391e94>] pci_bus_generic_read_dev_vendor_id+0x3c/0x1ec [<c039245c>] pci_scan_single_device+0xa4/0x11c [<c0392570>] pci_scan_slot+0x9c/0x23c [<c039388c>] pci_scan_child_bus_extend+0x58/0x2f4 [<c0393db0>] pci_scan_root_bus_bridge+0x64/0xe8 [<c0393e54>] pci_host_probe+0x20/0xc8 [<c03bc6f4>] pci_host_common_probe+0x144/0x1e4

Fix this by giving the CAM ops the same ->add_bus/->remove_bus callbacks. Since pci_ecam_add_bus() and pci_ecam_remove_bus() are static to ecam.c, move the CAM ops definition there as pci_generic_cam_ops (mirroring pci_generic_ecam_ops) and export it for pci-host-generic.c to reference.

[mani: removed timestamp from log]

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8fe55ef23387ce3c7488375b1fd539420d7654bb to before 5e52eb0290f66ba0732956dcb1e365b5ca3c5108Affected
  • 8fe55ef23387ce3c7488375b1fd539420d7654bb to before baf9b0383ff770fdff123d3a832f3a99641d96ddAffected
  • 8fe55ef23387ce3c7488375b1fd539420d7654bb to before 8d08713ec83a18526d1ed1fd5f0d2b901d103a10Affected
  • 8fe55ef23387ce3c7488375b1fd539420d7654bb to before 74456843f18ba7f3045974d7e8b88ab993152b8cAffected
  • 8fe55ef23387ce3c7488375b1fd539420d7654bb to before 0c55707bd5d0d7670704cfd0dda933809b052f67Affected
  • 8fe55ef23387ce3c7488375b1fd539420d7654bb to before a199293f3038db8d31d47aa60f1e18272cd82354Affected
  • 8fe55ef23387ce3c7488375b1fd539420d7654bb to before 0916948026f623844acd08888f7cbedbf1c48d6bAffected
  • 8fe55ef23387ce3c7488375b1fd539420d7654bb to before 008cb88edb41f3c7c8e0ed763ff9f26719830984Affected
  • 0b5877a1aeacdbf32b3bea91326592004ec7806fAffected
  • a037ebbe72a4f98495b193112e2b2000e5e09eb5Affected
  • 5.12.19 to before 5.13Affected
  • 5.13.4 to before 5.14Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 5.15.218 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.185 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.154 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.106 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.47 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.11 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2.1 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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