[BUG] ish_hw_start -- page fault on a PIO cookie: intel_ish_ipc maps an I/O BAR and dereferences it

From: Farhad Alemi

Date: Fri Aug 28 2026 - 01:38:33 EST


Hello,

As part of the kernel research at ASU's SEFCOM
lab, we hit the crash below. Crash reports can be found here:

https://github.com/farhad-alemi/public_bug_reports/tree/main/152-hid-intel-ish-ioport-bar-deref/

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000000001c078
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
RIP: 0010:ish_hw_start+0x41/0x2d0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ish_probe+0x34d/0x460
pci_device_probe+0x436/0xc90
really_probe+0x267/0xaf0
__driver_probe_device+0x1e2/0x350
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410
bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0
__device_attach+0x2c5/0x450
drivers_probe_store+0x11c/0x220

Our reproducer.c is available upon request.

Happy to test a patch if that would help.

Regards,