CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89941
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: Make IIO DMA fence release RCU-safe
The `dma_fence` documentation states that if a custom release
implementation is provided, the `dma_fence` object must be freed in an
RCU-safe way. The current `iio_dma_fence` implementation uses `kfree()`,
which might result in a use-after-free.
Remove the custom `release` implementation. This makes the DMA fence core
fall back to `dma_fence_free()`, which calls `kfree_rcu()` on the fence.
This requires that the fence be the first member of `struct iio_dma_fence`.
Using the default release method for extended DMA fence structures is a
common pattern.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06a9460b8b792e109cbc934a856d02e5cff217ef git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11cef99491117d4264603df159c4ff5f3845a059 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/311595dc0b5621f74d8eb4dc38ef4efcdfe7e769 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8662e56c31cf23b61ca3d11b516efb94c35b8026 git.kernel.org