CVE-2026-90233

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxd977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea < c25b6b28a35f9e36ce5dd6da5905bcddb2128707affected
LinuxLinuxd977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea < 79fb405966edb5065234440d94cc75bfd7b01f41affected
LinuxLinuxd977506f8863807129d7a11f4057dfb1b38085ea < cb144c2f67128abfa5c7ba33318617d19f192156affected
LinuxLinux6.16affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.16unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.52 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.6 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc1 <= *unaffected

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