CVE-2025-71162

dmaengine: tegra-adma: Fix use-after-free

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jan 25, 2026
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: tegra-adma: Fix use-after-free

A use-after-free bug exists in the Tegra ADMA driver when audio streams are terminated, particularly during XRUN conditions. The issue occurs when the DMA buffer is freed by tegra_adma_terminate_all() before the vchan completion tasklet finishes accessing it.

The race condition follows this sequence:

1. DMA transfer completes, triggering an interrupt that schedules the completion tasklet (tasklet has not executed yet) 2. Audio playback stops, calling tegra_adma_terminate_all() which frees the DMA buffer memory via kfree() 3. The scheduled tasklet finally executes, calling vchan_complete() which attempts to access the already-freed memory

Since tasklets can execute at any time after being scheduled, there is no guarantee that the buffer will remain valid when vchan_complete() runs.

Fix this by properly synchronizing the virtual channel completion: - Calling vchan_terminate_vdesc() in tegra_adma_stop() to mark the descriptors as terminated instead of freeing the descriptor. - Add the callback tegra_adma_synchronize() that calls vchan_synchronize() which kills any pending tasklets and frees any terminated descriptors.

Crash logs: [ 337.427523] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in vchan_complete+0x124/0x3b0 [ 337.427544] Read of size 8 at addr ffff000132055428 by task swapper/0/0

[ 337.427562] Call trace: [ 337.427564] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x320 [ 337.427571] show_stack+0x20/0x30 [ 337.427575] dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84 [ 337.427584] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x74/0x2b8 [ 337.427590] kasan_report+0x1f4/0x210 [ 337.427598] __asan_load8+0xa0/0xd0 [ 337.427603] vchan_complete+0x124/0x3b0 [ 337.427609] tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0x190/0x1d0 [ 337.427617] tasklet_action+0x30/0x40 [ 337.427623] __do_softirq+0x1a0/0x5c4 [ 337.427628] irq_exit+0x110/0x140 [ 337.427633] handle_domain_irq+0xa4/0xe0 [ 337.427640] gic_handle_irq+0x64/0x160 [ 337.427644] call_on_irq_stack+0x20/0x4c [ 337.427649] do_interrupt_handler+0x7c/0x90 [ 337.427654] el1_interrupt+0x30/0x80 [ 337.427659] el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x30 [ 337.427663] el1h_64_irq+0x7c/0x80 [ 337.427667] cpuidle_enter_state+0xe4/0x540 [ 337.427674] cpuidle_enter+0x54/0x80 [ 337.427679] do_idle+0x2e0/0x380 [ 337.427685] cpu_startup_entry+0x2c/0x70 [ 337.427690] rest_init+0x114/0x130 [ 337.427695] arch_call_rest_init+0x18/0x24 [ 337.427702] start_kernel+0x380/0x3b4 [ 337.427706] __primary_switched+0xc0/0xc8

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f46b195799b5cb05338e7c44cb3617eacb56d755 to before 5f8d1d66a952d0396671e1f21ff8127a4d14fb4eAffected
  • f46b195799b5cb05338e7c44cb3617eacb56d755 to before 76992310f80776b4d1f7f8915f59b92883a3e44cAffected
  • f46b195799b5cb05338e7c44cb3617eacb56d755 to before ae3eed72de682ddbba507ed2d6b848c21a6b721eAffected
  • f46b195799b5cb05338e7c44cb3617eacb56d755 to before 59cb421b0902fbef2b9512ae8ba198a20f26b41fAffected
  • f46b195799b5cb05338e7c44cb3617eacb56d755 to before cb2c9c4bb1322cc3c9984ad17db8cdd2663879caAffected
  • f46b195799b5cb05338e7c44cb3617eacb56d755 to before be655c3736b3546f39bc8116ffbf2a3b6cac96c4Affected
  • f46b195799b5cb05338e7c44cb3617eacb56d755 to before 2efd07a7c36949e6fa36a69183df24d368bf9e96Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.7Affected
  • before 4.7Not affected
  • 5.10.249 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.199 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.162 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.122 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.67 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.7 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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