CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89940
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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:
iio: buffer: Tie IIO dma fence lock lifetime to the fence
The `iio_dma_fence` implementation currently uses a lock embedded in the
`iio_dmabuf_priv`. But the `iio_dma_fence` can outlive the
`iio_dmabuf_priv`, which can cause a use-after-free.
Tie the lifetime of the lock to the lifetime of the fence by embedding them
in the same struct.
We can't just hold a reference to the `iio_dmabuf_priv` from the
`iio_dma_fence` since `iio_buffer_dmabuf_release()` might sleep and the
fence release callback is not allowed to sleep.
Note that the `dma_fence` framework now has an internal lock that gets used
when the passing `NULL` for `lock` in `dma_fence_init()`, but in order to
allow this patch to be backportable use an external lock.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/510497e31be4f241103507315a859e2085ccb081 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6865d79fca17a80fbd60c12550ca9a5e0e20e0eb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b3e221590181a8beb3735bbabf166df02c839b5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f25ec4627d935dedfb5fe83bd2c2678cdcc19611 git.kernel.org