{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98216 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98216 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 6 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98216 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98216 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 6 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98216 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98216/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98216/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98216","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98216/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98216","record":{"aliases":["AZL-106146","BELL-CVE-2026-98216","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98216","GHSA-2p8w-fgw9-p46c","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98216"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A pointer arithmetic error in the IB/hfi1 driver causes a null pointer dereference and kernel oops when mapping credit-return pages, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.1,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nIB/hfi1: Fix the PIO_CRED credit-return mmap\n\nhfi1_file_mmap()'s PIO_CRED case must hand user space the single\ncredit-return page that holds this context's entry.  That page is the\nsecond or third page of the per-node credit-return allocation once the\nhardware send context index reaches 64 or 128, so the failure below is\nintermittent: when the entry lands on the first page the offset is zero\nand everything works.\n\nTwo things are wrong.\n\nFirst, cr_page_offset is a byte offset but .va is a struct\ncredit_return *, so adding it is pointer arithmetic and scales the offset\nby sizeof(struct credit_return) == 64.  memvirt then lands 256 KiB or\n512 KiB past a 10240-byte allocation.  With an IOMMU translating, that\naddress is inside the vmalloc range but in no vm_area, so\ndma_mmap_coherent() -\u003e iommu_dma_mmap() finds no pages, vmalloc_to_pfn()\nreturns page_to_pfn(NULL), and remap_pfn_range() installs a frame above\nMAXPHYADDR.  The first user read then takes:\n\n  psm2_ep_open_pr: Corrupted page table at address 7a14d007e000\n  PGD 800000013886a067 P4D 800000013886a067 PUD 13886b067 PMD 13886c067\n                                            PTE 800049168e911235\n  Oops: Bad pagetable: 000d [#1] SMP PTI\n\nSecond, and still wrong once the arithmetic is corrected,\ndma_mmap_coherent() describes a whole coherent buffer and selects the\npage within it with vma-\u003evm_pgoff.  Offsetting cpu_addr has no effect:\nfor a vmap'd allocation iommu_dma_mmap() uses cpu_addr only to locate the\nvm_area and then maps pages[vm_pgoff], which hfi1_file_mmap() has just\nset to 0.  User space therefore always receives the first credit-return\npage, every credit read is for the wrong context, and send PIO stalls\nforever.\n\nUse the DMA API as intended: pass the base of the allocation with its\nfull length and select the page with vm_pgoff.  A separate length is\nneeded because memlen must keep describing the VMA for the existing size\ncheck.  The dma-direct path stays correct as well, since dma_direct_mmap()\nadds the same vm_pgoff to the base pfn.\n\nTested on a Dell T7610 (Xeon E5-2650 v2, Intel IOMMU in DMA-FQ mode)\nagainst a Threadripper PRO 3995WX peer, both Omni-Path 100.  Before this\nchange psm2_ep_open() Oopses the kernel; with only the arithmetic\ncorrected psm2_ep_open() succeeds but any transfer that uses send PIO\nhangs, PSM2_SDMA=2 (send PIO disabled) completing normally while\nPSM2_SDMA=0 (send PIO only) hangs every time.  With this change send PIO,\nsend DMA and the default mixed mode all work.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"IB/hfi1: Fix the PIO_CRED credit-return mmap","id":"CVE-2026-98216","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"IB/mlx4: Fix use-after-free on pkey sysfs registration failure","id":"CVE-2026-98217"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"selinux: preserve user SID across nested backing files","id":"CVE-2026-98215"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-10-06","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A pointer arithmetic error in the IB/hfi1 driver causes a null pointer dereference and kernel oops when mapping credit-return pages, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98216/"}