CVE-2026-90233

nvme-pci: release descriptor pools on probe failure

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

nvme-pci: release descriptor pools on probe failure

The per-NUMA-node descriptor DMA pools are created lazily from nvme_init_hctx_common() once the admin tag set is allocated, but they are only destroyed in nvme_remove() via nvme_release_descriptor_pools(). Any probe failure after the admin tag set has been allocated unwinds through the out_disable label and nvme_pci_free_ctrl(), neither of which releases the pools, leaking the dma_pool objects.

Release the descriptor pools in the out_disable error path. It must not be added to nvme_pci_free_ctrl(), as that would double-free against nvme_remove() on the normal teardown path.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea to before c25b6b28a35f9e36ce5dd6da5905bcddb2128707Affected
  • d977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea to before 79fb405966edb5065234440d94cc75bfd7b01f41Affected
  • d977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea to before cb144c2f67128abfa5c7ba33318617d19f192156Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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