In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriov_numvfs to zero It is possible to disable VFs while the PF driver is processing requests from the VF driver. This can result in a panic. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000000106c PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G I --------- - Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/06WXJT, BIOS 2.8.2 08/27/2020 RIP: 0010:ixgbe_msg_task+0x4c8/0x1690 [ixgbe] Code: 00 00 48 8d 04 40 48 c1 e0 05 89 7c 24 24 89 fd 48 89 44 24 10 83 ff 01 0f 84 b8 04 00 00 4c 8b 64 24 10 4d 03 a5 48 22 00 00 <41> 80 7c 24 4c 00 0f 84 8a 03 00 00 0f b7 c7 83 f8 08 0f 84 8f 0a RSP: 0018:ffffb337869f8df8 EFLAGS: 00010002 R