linux-cve-announce - CVE-2026-23166: ice: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ice_vsi_set_napi

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Message-ID: <2026021419-CVE-2026-23166-c1fa@gregkh>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:04:32 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-23166: ice: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ice_vsi_set_napi_queues

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ice: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ice_vsi_set_napi_queues

Add NULL pointer checks in ice_vsi_set_napi_queues() to prevent crashes
during resume from suspend when rings[q_idx]->q_vector is NULL.

Tested adaptor:
60:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller E810-XXV for SFP [8086:159b] (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXV-2 [8086:4003]

SR-IOV state: both disabled and enabled can reproduce this issue.

kernel version: v6.18

Reproduce steps:
Boot up and execute suspend like systemctl suspend or rtcwake.

Log:
<1>[  231.443607] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040
<1>[  231.444052] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
<1>[  231.444484] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
<6>[  231.444913] PGD 0 P4D 0
<4>[  231.445342] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
<4>[  231.446635] RIP: 0010:netif_queue_set_napi+0xa/0x170
<4>[  231.447067] Code: 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 80 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 48 85 c9 74 0b <48> 83 79 30 00 0f 84 39 01 00 00 55 41 89 d1 49 89 f8 89 f2 48 89
<4>[  231.447513] RSP: 0018:ffffcc780fc078c0 EFLAGS: 00010202
<4>[  231.447961] RAX: ffff8b848ca30400 RBX: ffff8b848caf2028 RCX: 0000000000000010
<4>[  231.448443] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8b848dbd4000
<4>[  231.448896] RBP: ffffcc780fc078e8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
<4>[  231.449345] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
<4>[  231.449817] R13: ffff8b848dbd4000 R14: ffff8b84833390c8 R15: 0000000000000000
<4>[  231.450265] FS:  00007c7b29e9d740(0000) GS:ffff8b8c068e2000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
<4>[  231.450715] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
<4>[  231.451179] CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 000000030626f004 CR4: 0000000000f72ef0
<4>[  231.451629] PKRU: 55555554
<4>[  231.452076] Call Trace:
<4>[  231.452549]  <TASK>
<4>[  231.452996]  ? ice_vsi_set_napi_queues+0x4d/0x110 [ice]
<4>[  231.453482]  ice_resume+0xfd/0x220 [ice]
<4>[  231.453977]  ? __pfx_pci_pm_resume+0x10/0x10
<4>[  231.454425]  pci_pm_resume+0x8c/0x140
<4>[  231.454872]  ? __pfx_pci_pm_resume+0x10/0x10
<4>[  231.455347]  dpm_run_callback+0x5f/0x160
<4>[  231.455796]  ? dpm_wait_for_superior+0x107/0x170
<4>[  231.456244]  device_resume+0x177/0x270
<4>[  231.456708]  dpm_resume+0x209/0x2f0
<4>[  231.457151]  dpm_resume_end+0x15/0x30
<4>[  231.457596]  suspend_devices_and_enter+0x1da/0x2b0
<4>[  231.458054]  enter_state+0x10e/0x570

Add defensive checks for both the ring pointer and its q_vector
before dereferencing, allowing the system to resume successfully even when
q_vectors are unmapped.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-23166 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit 2a5dc090b92cfa5270e20056074241c6db5c9cdd and fixed in 6.12.69 with commit d75c7b7c3c2b8e3569043099e6bdcefc983856c5
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit 2a5dc090b92cfa5270e20056074241c6db5c9cdd and fixed in 6.18.9 with commit 36126ddbe924727add05a594dedf230d3b575e4d
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit 2a5dc090b92cfa5270e20056074241c6db5c9cdd and fixed in 6.19 with commit 9bb30be4d89ff9a8d7ab1aa0eb2edaca83431f85
	Issue introduced in 6.10.10 with commit 2285c2faef19ee08a6bd6754f4c3ec07dceb2889

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-23166
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_lib.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d75c7b7c3c2b8e3569043099e6bdcefc983856c5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36126ddbe924727add05a594dedf230d3b575e4d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bb30be4d89ff9a8d7ab1aa0eb2edaca83431f85