CVE-2026-89940

iio: buffer: Tie IIO dma fence lock lifetime to the fence

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

iio: buffer: Tie IIO dma fence lock lifetime to the fence

The `iio_dma_fence` implementation currently uses a lock embedded in the `iio_dmabuf_priv`. But the `iio_dma_fence` can outlive the `iio_dmabuf_priv`, which can cause a use-after-free.

Tie the lifetime of the lock to the lifetime of the fence by embedding them in the same struct.

We can't just hold a reference to the `iio_dmabuf_priv` from the `iio_dma_fence` since `iio_buffer_dmabuf_release()` might sleep and the fence release callback is not allowed to sleep.

Note that the `dma_fence` framework now has an internal lock that gets used when the passing `NULL` for `lock` in `dma_fence_init()`, but in order to allow this patch to be backportable use an external lock.

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
  • 3e26d9f08fbe0b73e951a5e810fdb7a332b7e37f to before 6865d79fca17a80fbd60c12550ca9a5e0e20e0ebAffected
  • 3e26d9f08fbe0b73e951a5e810fdb7a332b7e37f to before 510497e31be4f241103507315a859e2085ccb081Affected
  • 3e26d9f08fbe0b73e951a5e810fdb7a332b7e37f to before 8b3e221590181a8beb3735bbabf166df02c839b5Affected
  • 3e26d9f08fbe0b73e951a5e810fdb7a332b7e37f to before f25ec4627d935dedfb5fe83bd2c2678cdcc19611Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.11Affected
  • before 6.11Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.5 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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