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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43211" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:14.423Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:16:24.271Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43211" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43211.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43211" title: "PCI: Fix pci_slot_trylock() error handling" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI: Fix pci_slot_trylock() error handling\n\nCommit a4e772898f8b (\"PCI: Add missing bridge lock to pci_bus_lock()\")\ndelegates the bridge device's pci_dev_trylock() to pci_bus_trylock() in\npci_slot_trylock(), but it forgets to remove the corresponding\npci_dev_unlock() when pci_bus_trylock() fails.\n\nBefore a4e772898f8b, the code did:\n\n if (!pci_dev_trylock(dev)) /* \u003c- lock bridge device */\n goto unlock;\n if (dev-\u003esubordinate) {\n if (!pci_bus_trylock(dev-\u003esubordinate)) {\n pci_dev_unlock(dev); /* \u003c- unlock bridge device */\n goto unlock;\n }\n }\n\nAfter a4e772898f8b the bridge-device lock is no longer taken, but the\npci_dev_unlock(dev) on the failure path was left in place, leading to the\nbug.\n\nThis yields one of two errors:\n\n 1. A warning that the lock is being unlocked when no one holds it.\n 2. An incorrect unlock of a lock that belongs to another thread.\n\nFix it by removing the now-redundant pci_dev_unlock(dev) on the failure\npath.\n\n[Same patch later posted by Keith at\nhttps://patch.msgid.link/20260116184150.3013258-1-kbusch@meta.com]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e2355d513b89a2cb511b4ded0deb426cdb01acd0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ebb27b7399ab8b9eb1f792b329aa5f6250c590d4"},{"version":"04e85a3285b0e5c5af6fd2c0fd6e95ffecc01945","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbe06a3058114bf95a17a4941b205f4b321c6f0a"},{"version":"7253b4fed46471cc247c6cacefac890a8472c083","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"943ed56606a7ab2fe5a99cad572dd17d484310c7"},{"version":"78c6e39fef5c428960aff742149bba302dd46f5a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a19b61fdb958ffadbba85b43c991eb9fc70c1c1c"},{"version":"a4e772898f8bf2e7e1cf661a12c60a5612c4afab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0425aaf20b407d2f2cf3bf469808e4a35f9abb8b"},{"version":"a4e772898f8bf2e7e1cf661a12c60a5612c4afab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bd435f4b738130d732ef64e0e57e45185f77165d"},{"version":"a4e772898f8bf2e7e1cf661a12c60a5612c4afab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b08ea9690b212b7bf7f12414039259cf34b1aa0"},{"version":"a4e772898f8bf2e7e1cf661a12c60a5612c4afab","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9368d1ee62829b08aa31836b3ca003803caf0b72"},{"version":"0790b89c7e911003b8c50ae50e3ac7645de1fae9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"df77a678c33871a6e4ac5b54a71662f1d702335b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"81c68e218ab883dfa368460a59b674084c0240da","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.226","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.252"},{"version":"5.15.167","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.202"},{"version":"6.1.110","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.165"},{"version":"6.6.51","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.128"},{"version":"4.19.322","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.284","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"6.10.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"5.10.252","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.202","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.165","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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