CVE-2026-43211

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

PCI: Fix pci_slot_trylock() error handling

Commit a4e772898f8b (“PCI: Add missing bridge lock to pci_bus_lock()”)
delegates the bridge device’s pci_dev_trylock() to pci_bus_trylock() in
pci_slot_trylock(), but it forgets to remove the corresponding
pci_dev_unlock() when pci_bus_trylock() fails.

Before a4e772898f8b, the code did:

if (!pci_dev_trylock(dev)) /* <- lock bridge device */ goto unlock; if (dev->subordinate) {
if (!pci_bus_trylock(dev->subordinate)) {
pci_dev_unlock(dev); /* <- unlock bridge device */ goto unlock; } } After a4e772898f8b the bridge-device lock is no longer taken, but the pci_dev_unlock(dev) on the failure path was left in place, leading to the bug. This yields one of two errors: 1. A warning that the lock is being unlocked when no one holds it. 2. An incorrect unlock of a lock that belongs to another thread. Fix it by removing the now-redundant pci_dev_unlock(dev) on the failure path. [Same patch later posted by Keith at https://patch.msgid.link/20260116184150.3013258-1-kbusch@meta.com%5D

More information : https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0425aaf20b407d2f2cf3bf469808e4a35f9abb8b