usb: xhci: bail out of setup if the controller is inaccessible (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-80861
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: xhci: bail out of setup if the controller is inaccessible xhci_gen_setup() locates the operational registers using the capability length read from the very first register: xhci->op_regs = hcd->regs + HC_LENGTH(readl(&xhci->cap_regs->hc_capbase)); If the controller is dead or has dropped off the bus, that read returns ~0, HC_LENGTH() truncates it to 0xff, and op_regs ends up 0xff bytes past the page-aligned MMIO base, i.e. unaligned. The first access through it, xhci_halt() -> xhci_handshake() reading op_regs->status, is then an unaligned readl() on device memory. arm64 faults on unaligned device accesses, so instead of xhci_handshake() catching the all-ones value and returning -ENODEV, setup oopses: xhci-pci-renesas 0005:08:00.0: Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible xhci-pci-renesas 0005:08:00.0: xHCI Host Controller xhci-pci-renesas 0005:08:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff80030a770103 ESR = 0x0000000096000021 FSC = 0x21: alignment fault Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000021 [#1] SMP pc : xhci_halt [xhci_hcd] Call trace: xhci_halt xhci_gen_setup xhci_pci_setup usb_add_hcd usb_hcd_pci_probe xhci_pci_common_probe xhci_pci_renesas_probe This was hit with a Renesas uPD720201 that failed to power up ("Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible") yet still reached the HCD probe path. Read the capability register once, and if it reads back the all-ones value (as xhci_handshake() and xhci_reset() already test for), abort setup with -ENODEV before op_regs is derived from it. Reading it once also avoids re-reading a register that may change under a concurrent hot-removal.

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CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 66d4eadd8d067269ea8fead1a50fe87c2979a80d < 9f8b403d5f8c1ac361533c73fa449153a3c7fc6c ; affected 66d4eadd8d067269ea8fead1a50fe87c2979a80d < 15e62f969fecf459a0b873004cc5f4c5a6ba5fcc ; affected 66d4eadd8d067269ea8fead1a50fe87c2979a80d < 99e78b54cc3d70e008bd1a30d43e13d652c773e0 ; affected 66d4eadd8d067269ea8fead1a50fe87c2979a80d < 301f4a3303b21ea959a8294518ee883710498ac2 ; affected 66d4eadd8d067269ea8fead1a50fe87c2979a80d < 70706dbcf122940f4e3595d7ba1445004cc00074 ; affected 66d4eadd8d067269ea8fead1a50fe87c2979a80d < c051f66b621695ad7c8438a9497d79e1f4f05edb
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.31 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.31 ; unaffected 5.10.273 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.224 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD