dmaengine: wait for RCU readers before releasing dma_device (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-98342
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: wait for RCU readers before releasing dma_device dma_issue_pending_all() walks the dma_device_list with list_for_each_entry_rcu() under rcu_read_lock(). dma_device_release() unlinks the device with list_del_rcu() and then calls device->device_release() (which in many drivers, such as plx_dma.c, directly calls kfree()). Because there is no grace period between unlinking the device and freeing it, concurrent RCU readers in dma_issue_pending_all() can access the device after it has been freed. The lockless walk originally relied on clients holding a dmaengine reference to pin the provider module, and therefore the device, for as long as they might traverse the list. Commit 8ad342a86359 ("dmaengine: Add reference counting to dma_device struct") decoupled the dma_device lifetime from the module reference, so the device can now be released while a reader is still walking the list. Add synchronize_rcu() before the device is freed, so RCU readers are guaranteed to have finished. Keep it unconditional: providers that do not implement device_release() free the device themselves once dma_async_device_unregister() returns. This call will delay for a grace period with dma_list_mutex held, which is safe and only teardown path is delayed.

References

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 2ba05622b8b143b0c95968ba59bddfbd6d2f2559 < ac8ce9f89638d6d79875cca7d8ae42566a9bde15 ; affected 2ba05622b8b143b0c95968ba59bddfbd6d2f2559 < 14578c78405d51fa92e4ada4502a45f537c0fcb8 ; affected 2ba05622b8b143b0c95968ba59bddfbd6d2f2559 < cbb3310a5167e868a5e763e32b9a23b4d50669ee ; affected 2ba05622b8b143b0c95968ba59bddfbd6d2f2559 < 8577a5ec4f7e00443015ef99f646def093121a1b ; affected 2ba05622b8b143b0c95968ba59bddfbd6d2f2559 < 4448a539a0c39141cccc67be6cacde0f35024313 ; affected 2ba05622b8b143b0c95968ba59bddfbd6d2f2559 < fc1f4884f1d46fc7a8cee6e2997ecc9e8d1c7f77
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.29 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.29 ; unaffected 5.10.271 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.222 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.189 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.158 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD