{"id":"CVE-2026-81005","summary":"ipmi: si: Fix NULL pointer dereference after failed registration","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipmi: si: Fix NULL pointer dereference after failed registration\n\ntry_smi_init() allocates new_smi-\u003esi_sm and later calls\nipmi_register_smi_mod(), which maps to ipmi_add_smi().\n\nDuring ipmi_add_smi(), the upper IPMI message handler obtains the\ninitial BMC device information through __bmc_get_device_id(). This can\nfail if the BMC does not return a successful response to the Get Device\nID command.\n\nWhen the BMC returns a nonzero completion code, the device-id helper\nretries the command and eventually returns -EIO if the device ID still\ncannot be fetched.\n\nOn this failure path, ipmi_add_smi() logs \"Unable to get the device id\"\nand goes to out_err_started, where it invokes the lower driver's\nshutdown callback. try_smi_init() then logs the returned registration\nfailure:\n\n ipmi_si IPI0001:00: IPMI message handler: Unable to get the device id: -5\n ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Unable to register device: error -5\n\nFor ipmi_si, the shutdown callback is shutdown_smi(), which cleans up\nthe SI state machine data, frees smi_info-\u003esi_sm, and sets\nsmi_info-\u003esi_sm and smi_info-\u003eintf to NULL.\n\nHowever, intf-\u003ein_shutdown is not set on this failed-registration\nrollback path. Therefore, the asynchronous redo_bmc_reg work item can\nstill retry BMC device-id probing after the lower driver has already\ncleared its SI state machine data. In the observed case, that retry path\nreached start_next_msg(), which passed the NULL smi_info-\u003esi_sm pointer\nto the selected KCS state machine handler:\n\nBUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000\nWorkqueue: events redo_bmc_reg [ipmi_msghandler]\nRIP: start_kcs_transaction+0x2c/0x190 [ipmi_si]\nCall Trace:\n start_next_msg+0x50/0x80 [ipmi_si]\n check_start_timer_thread.part.9+0x3b/0x50 [ipmi_si]\n sender+0x69/0x80 [ipmi_si]\n i_ipmi_request+0x2ac/0x9d0 [ipmi_msghandler]\n __get_device_id.isra.29+0xaa/0x180 [ipmi_msghandler]\n __bmc_get_device_id+0xef/0x950 [ipmi_msghandler]\n redo_bmc_reg+0x52/0x60 [ipmi_msghandler]\n process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360\n\nSet intf-\u003ein_shutdown on the out_err_started path before invoking the\nlower driver's shutdown callback. This prevents later redo_bmc_reg\nretries from using an interface whose lower driver state has been\ncleaned up, and applies the same shutdown state to other IPMI interfaces\nas 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