CVE-2026-98020

Summary

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

pds_core: fix cmd_regs access racing BAR unmap on reset

pdsc_reset_prepare() and pdsc_reset_done()'s pdsc_map_bars() error path clear/iounmap cmd_regs without devcmd_lock, and pdsc_legacy_firmware_update()'s download loop derefs cmd_regs after dropping and retaking the lock without re-checking. An FLR concurrent with a devlink flash can unmap cmd_regs under an in-flight devcmd, causing a NULL deref or a write to unmapped MMIO.

Take devcmd_lock across the BAR unmap/remap, and re-check cmd_regs in the download loop. Only the PF maps cmd_regs and runs devcmd, so skip the unmap on a VF, as pdsc_remove() and pdsc_reset_done() already do.

A reset that completes entirely within the unlocked window is not a correctness problem for the image: the device clears its update session, so a resumed download is rejected, and it verifies the staged image before writing a flash slot, reporting PDS_RC_BAD_FW rather than activating it.

pdsc_unmap_bars() also clears info_regs, intr_status and intr_ctrl. The interrupt and start/stop readers of those are quiesced before the unmap by pdsc_fw_down(), which frees the interrupts and tears down the queues. The debugfs readers are not, since those files outlive a reset; that is pre-existing and out of scope here.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cc697565fd19b5ba2d100cdd4a20dd6d263abc2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa31bd14c5042c6315bb2182c963f03ca6e79ca4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09f831bfe39de5b8026fefb3d106b5cc93272170
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7980325b2f71e3f65c1323c39792e2455da6fab6

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