CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63929
- Status
- Undergoing Analysis
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-07-27
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: buffer: Fix DMA fence leak in iio_buffer_enqueue_dmabuf()
iio_buffer_enqueue_dmabuf() allocates a struct iio_dma_fence (104 bytes,
kmalloc-128) via kmalloc_obj()+dma_fence_init(), which sets the initial
kref to 1. It then calls dma_resv_add_fence() which takes a second
reference (kref=2), and stores a raw pointer in block->fence.
On the success path the function returns without calling dma_fence_put()
to release the initial reference, so every buffer enqueue permanently
leaks one kmalloc-128 allocation.
The iio_buffer_cleanup() work item only releases the temporary reference
taken during completion signalling by iio_buffer_signal_dmabuf_done();
the initial reference from dma_fence_init() is never released.
With four iio_rwdev instances at 240kHz and 512 samples per buffer,
this produces ~1875 kmalloc-128 allocations per second matching the
observed slab growth exactly. A test with ftrace confirmed that the
dma_fence_destroy event was never triggered.
Fix by calling dma_fence_put() after dma_resv_add_fence(), transferring
ownership of the fence to the DMA reservation object. The DMA fence then
gets properly discarded after being signalled.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3412a95afaa5d3262008dfc34f3c7be33d8151dc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9678aeed8b77d495a417dd057d479f3733094019 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96cdeaba6a008503455b78a9641c05c2a886a7ec git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a093999355084bdbfe6e97f1dd232e58a1525f0b git.kernel.org