CVE-2026-23117
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
14/02/2026
Last modified:
14/02/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
ice: add missing ice_deinit_hw() in devlink reinit path<br />
<br />
devlink-reload results in ice_init_hw failed error, and then removing<br />
the ice driver causes a NULL pointer dereference.<br />
<br />
[ +0.102213] ice 0000:ca:00.0: ice_init_hw failed: -16<br />
...<br />
[ +0.000001] Call Trace:<br />
[ +0.000003] <br />
[ +0.000006] ice_unload+0x8f/0x100 [ice]<br />
[ +0.000081] ice_remove+0xba/0x300 [ice]<br />
<br />
Commit 1390b8b3d2be ("ice: remove duplicate call to ice_deinit_hw() on<br />
error paths") removed ice_deinit_hw() from ice_deinit_dev(). As a result<br />
ice_devlink_reinit_down() no longer calls ice_deinit_hw(), but<br />
ice_devlink_reinit_up() still calls ice_init_hw(). Since the control<br />
queues are not uninitialized, ice_init_hw() fails with -EBUSY.<br />
<br />
Add ice_deinit_hw() to ice_devlink_reinit_down() to correspond with<br />
ice_init_hw() in ice_devlink_reinit_up().



