In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: igb: Do not bring the device up after non-fatal error Commit 004d25060c78 ("igb: Fix igbdown hung on surprise removal") changed igbioerrordetected() to ignore non-fatal pcie errors in order to avoid hung task that can happen when igbdown() is called multiple times. This caused an issue when processing transient non-fatal errors. igbioresume(), which is called after igbioerrordetected(), assumes that device is brought down by igbioerrordetected() if the interface is up. This resulted in panic with stacktrace below. [ T3256] igb 0000:09:00.0 haeth0: igb: haeth0 NIC Link is Down [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: Uncorrected (Non-Fatal) error received: 0000:09:00.0 [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, (Requester ID) [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: device [8086:1537] error status/mask=00004000/00000000 [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: [14] CmpltTO [ 200.105524,009][ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: AER: TLP Header: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast errordetected message [ T292] igb 0000:09:00.0: Non-correctable non-fatal error reported. [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast mmioenabled message [ T292] pcieport 0000:00:1c.5: AER: broadcast resume message [ T292] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ T292] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:6539! [ T292] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ T292] RIP: 0010:napienable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] Call Trace: [ T292] <TASK> [ T292] ? die+0x33/0x90 [ T292] ? dotrap+0xdc/0x110 [ T292] ? napienable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? doerrortrap+0x70/0xb0 [ T292] ? napienable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? napienable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? excinvalidop+0x4e/0x70 [ T292] ? napienable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] ? asmexcinvalidop+0x16/0x20 [ T292] ? napienable+0x37/0x40 [ T292] igbup+0x41/0x150 [ T292] igbioresume+0x25/0x70 [ T292] reportresume+0x54/0x70 [ T292] ? reportfrozendetected+0x20/0x20 [ T292] pciwalkbus+0x6c/0x90 [ T292] ? aerprintportinfo+0xa0/0xa0 [ T292] pciedorecovery+0x22f/0x380 [ T292] aerprocesserrdevices+0x110/0x160 [ T292] aerisr+0x1c1/0x1e0 [ T292] ? disableirqnosync+0x10/0x10 [ T292] irqthreadfn+0x1a/0x60 [ T292] irqthread+0xe3/0x1a0 [ T292] ? irqsetaffinitynotifier+0x120/0x120 [ T292] ? irqaffinitynotify+0x100/0x100 [ T292] kthread+0xe2/0x110 [ T292] ? kthreadcompleteandexit+0x20/0x20 [ T292] retfromfork+0x2d/0x50 [ T292] ? kthreadcompleteandexit+0x20/0x20 [ T292] retfromforkasm+0x11/0x20 [ T292] </TASK> To fix this issue igbioresume() checks if the interface is running and the device is not down this means igbioerrordetected() did not bring the device down and there is no need to bring it up.