CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93118
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: aspeed_udc: check endpoint DMA allocation
ast_udc_probe() allocates a coherent DMA buffer used as the backing store
for endpoint buffers. ast_udc_init_ep() derives per-endpoint buffer
pointers from udc->ep0_buf, so a failed allocation is dereferenced during
probe.
Check the allocation before endpoint setup. The existing probe error path
called ast_udc_remove(), which unregisters the gadget unconditionally and
is not safe before usb_add_gadget_udc() succeeds. Add a local cleanup
helper for probe failures so pre-registration failures only unwind the
resources that were actually initialized.
This was found by a local static analysis checker for unchecked allocator
returns while scanning Linux 6.16. The change was checked by applying it
to current mainline and by running checkpatch. I do not have access to
Aspeed UDC hardware, so no runtime testing was performed.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aaad88f857498ed1294f061f0b25d27ae891c55 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6182e708e2e1f55521c8a01d7535630ecc2d7df9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97cee53a94be3bd4fd8fbed6071bd2f32dad1ab1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e6f57107c1886052d4baaa047a2bc3d0e91be5d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7ae1a48e70e9c3451b7dc7bc3896c82884bc4df git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff6e88e29965bd06f640e59acdcf0bbf04a7f55c git.kernel.org