CVE-2026-97441

Published: September 26, 2026Last modified: September 26, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ata: ahci: fail probe if BAR too small for claimed ports When an AHCI controller is disabled in BIOS, its HOST_CAP register may contain a bogus value, e.g. 0xFFFFFFFF. Since CAP.NP (Number of Ports) is a zeroes based 5-bit register field, a value of 0x1f means 32 ports. If CAP.NP claims more ports than can physically fit within the mapped BAR region, accessing port registers beyond the BAR boundary causes a kernel panic. Add validation in ahci_init_one() to check that the BAR size is sufficient for the number of ports claimed in CAP.NP. The check calculates the required MMIO size as: required_size = 0x100 (global registers) + max_ports * 0x80 If required_size exceeds the actual BAR size, the probe fails with -ENODEV, preventing the panic and providing a clear error message. [cassel: commit log]

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References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4086c6e1af757e1ff26fa2d2926b3ec0195de79
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df262c828b616450eb351349e91c63447551bd01
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2e291043c37a896d7f9797e25a356dceb030177