# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98020"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:40.900Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:25.476Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98020"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98020.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98020"
title: "pds_core: fix cmd_regs access racing BAR unmap on reset"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npds_core: fix cmd_regs access racing BAR unmap on reset\n\npdsc_reset_prepare() and pdsc_reset_done()'s pdsc_map_bars() error path\nclear/iounmap cmd_regs without devcmd_lock, and\npdsc_legacy_firmware_update()'s download loop derefs cmd_regs after\ndropping and retaking the lock without re-checking. An FLR concurrent\nwith a devlink flash can unmap cmd_regs under an in-flight devcmd,\ncausing a NULL deref or a write to unmapped MMIO.\n\nTake devcmd_lock across the BAR unmap/remap, and re-check cmd_regs in\nthe download loop. Only the PF maps cmd_regs and runs devcmd, so skip\nthe unmap on a VF, as pdsc_remove() and pdsc_reset_done() already do.\n\nA reset that completes entirely within the unlocked window is not a\ncorrectness problem for the image: the device clears its update session,\nso a resumed download is rejected, and it verifies the staged image\nbefore writing a flash slot, reporting PDS_RC_BAD_FW rather than\nactivating it.\n\npdsc_unmap_bars() also clears info_regs, intr_status and intr_ctrl. The\ninterrupt and start/stop readers of those are quiesced before the unmap\nby pdsc_fw_down(), which frees the interrupts and tears down the queues.\nThe debugfs readers are not, since those files outlive a reset; that is\npre-existing and out of scope here."
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