CVE-2026-74574 (GCVE-0-2026-74574)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 12:28 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:48
VLAI
Title
dmaengine: idxd: fix fdev setup failure cleanup in idxd_cdev_open()
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec , < 778ccbded2c8749c5be7f0dfa04fc9977a36fb7e (git)
Affected: e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec , < 8d5d28285728be47c82fdf1c48be4268293c90e7 (git)
Affected: e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec , < 0679c0c189d2548f00e1bac95be28e2df5c6c7f7 (git)
Affected: e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec , < 6e26a41c4c1a706edaaa7c7dffc6b3b945707a55 (git)
Affected: e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec , < ee1d7274102285d78a53161fc705a8d8cd40b066 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.151 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.103 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.44 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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