pds_core: fix cmd_regs access racing BAR unmap on reset
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.6.158, 6.8
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.6.158, 6.12.111, 6.18.53, 7.2.7, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-98020
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qm2m-cwg6-99v6
- 2026-10-03 Fix available: Linux/Linux@0bf9f3bae3c4b1eadb7a2bf63350333db7dac0d9, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-03 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf9f3bae3c4b1eadb7a2bf63350333db7dac0d9
- 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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Sources
- CVE-2026-98020 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-98020 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qm2m-cwg6-99v6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-98020 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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