CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-74574
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: idxd: fix fdev setup failure cleanup in idxd_cdev_open()
The failed_dev_add and failed_dev_name paths drop the file-device
reference while wq->wq_lock is still held. If put_device(fdev) drops the
last reference, idxd_file_dev_release() runs synchronously and tries to
take wq->wq_lock again, deadlocking.
Those paths also fall through into the later ctx cleanup labels even
though idxd_file_dev_release() owns that cleanup and frees ctx. This can
make idxd_xa_pasid_remove(ctx) and kfree(ctx) operate on a freed context.
Move idxd_wq_get() before file-device setup can fail, since the release
callback always calls idxd_wq_put(). Then unlock wq->wq_lock before
put_device(fdev) and return directly from the file-device setup failure
path, leaving ctx cleanup to the release callback.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0679c0c189d2548f00e1bac95be28e2df5c6c7f7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e26a41c4c1a706edaaa7c7dffc6b3b945707a55 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/778ccbded2c8749c5be7f0dfa04fc9977a36fb7e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d5d28285728be47c82fdf1c48be4268293c90e7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee1d7274102285d78a53161fc705a8d8cd40b066 git.kernel.org