CVE-2026-23390

tracing/dma: Cap dma_map_sg tracepoint arrays to prevent buffer overflow

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 25, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

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

tracing/dma: Cap dma_map_sg tracepoint arrays to prevent buffer overflow

The dma_map_sg tracepoint can trigger a perf buffer overflow when tracing large scatter-gather lists. With devices like virtio-gpu creating large DRM buffers, nents can exceed 1000 entries, resulting in:

phys_addrs: 1000 * 8 bytes = 8,000 bytes dma_addrs: 1000 * 8 bytes = 8,000 bytes lengths: 1000 * 4 bytes = 4,000 bytes Total: ~20,000 bytes

This exceeds PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE (8192 bytes), causing:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5497 at kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:405 perf buffer not large enough, wanted 24620, have 8192

Cap all three dynamic arrays at 128 entries using min() in the array size calculation. This ensures arrays are only as large as needed (up to the cap), avoiding unnecessary memory allocation for small operations while preventing overflow for large ones.

The tracepoint now records the full nents/ents counts and a truncated flag so users can see when data has been capped.

Changes in v2: - Use min(nents, DMA_TRACE_MAX_ENTRIES) for dynamic array sizing instead of fixed DMA_TRACE_MAX_ENTRIES allocation (feedback from Steven Rostedt) - This allocates only what's needed up to the cap, avoiding waste for small operations

Reviwed-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 038eb433dc1474c4bc7d33188294e3d4778efdfd to before 02d209bb018a40dee9eac89e91860253dee9605bAffected
  • 038eb433dc1474c4bc7d33188294e3d4778efdfd to before f2584f791a10343bdc995ff6ff402db45b95de69Affected
  • 038eb433dc1474c4bc7d33188294e3d4778efdfd to before daafcc0ef0b358d9d622b6e3b7c43767aa3814eeAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12Affected
  • before 6.12Not affected
  • 6.12.74 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.13 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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