CVE-2026-31601
Published: April 24, 2026· Updated: Apr 29, 2026
Official Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/xe: Reorganize the init to decouple migration from reset
Attempting to issue reset on VF devices that don't support migration
leads to the following:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000000011f8
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 7443 Comm: xe_sriov_flr Tainted: G S U 7.0.0-rc1-lgci-xe-xe-4588-cec43d5c2696af219-nodebug+ #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [U]=USER
Hardware name: Intel Corporation Alder Lake Client Platform/AlderLake-P DDR4 RVP, BIOS RPLPFWI1.R00.4035.A00.2301200723 01/20/2023
RIP: 0010:xe_sriov_vfio_wait_flr_done+0xc/0x80 [xe]
Code: ff c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 54 53 <83> bf f8 11 00 00 02 75 61 41 89 f4 85 f6 74 52 48 8b 47 08 48 89
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000f7c39b8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffffffffa04d8660 RBX: ffff88813e3e4000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9000f7c39c8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888101a48800
R13: ffff88813e3e4150 R14: ffff888130d0d008 R15: ffff88813e3e40d0
FS: 00007877d3d0d940(0000) GS:ffff88890b6d3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000000011f8 CR3: 000000015a762000 CR4: 0000000000f52ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
xe_vfio_pci_reset_done+0x49/0x120 [xe_vfio_pci]
pci_dev_restore+0x3b/0x80
pci_reset_function+0x109/0x140
reset_store+0x5c/0xb0
dev_attr_store+0x17/0x40
sysfs_kf_write+0x72/0x90
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x161/0x1f0
vfs_write+0x261/0x440
ksys_write+0x69/0xf0
__x64_sys_write+0x19/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x259/0x26e0
do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x1500
? __fput+0x1a2/0x2d0
? fput_close_sync+0x3d/0xa0
? __x64_sys_close+0x3e/0x90
? x64_sys_call+0x1b7c/0x26e0
? do_syscall_64+0x109/0x1500
? __task_pid_nr_ns+0x68/0x100
? __do_sys_getpid+0x1d/0x30
? x64_sys_call+0x10b5/0x26e0
? do_syscall_64+0x109/0x1500
? putname+0x41/0x90
? do_faccessat+0x1e8/0x300
? __x64_sys_access+0x1c/0x30
? x64_sys_call+0x1822/0x26e0
? do_syscall_64+0x109/0x1500
? tick_program_event+0x43/0xa0
? hrtimer_interrupt+0x126/0x260
? irqentry_exit+0xb2/0x710
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7877d5f1c5a4
Code: c7 00 16 00 00 00 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d a5 ea 0e 00 00 74 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 c3 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 48 89
RSP: 002b:00007fff48e5f908 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007877d5f1c5a4
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007877d621b0c9 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 00005fb49113b010 R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007877d621b0c9
R13: 0000000000000009 R14: 00007fff48e5fac0 R15: 00007fff48e5fac0
</TASK>
This is caused by the fact that some of the xe_vfio_pci_core_device
members needed for handling reset are only initialized as part of
migration init.
Fix the problem by reorganizing the code to decouple VF init from
migration init.
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-31601 requires local access, meaning attackers must already have a foothold on the target system.
Exploitation requires low privileges, which limits the exposure to scenarios where an attacker has already gained initial access.
A successful exploit results in availability disruption (denial of service), with a CVSS base score of 5.5.
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