CVE-2026-74574
CVE CVE-2026-74574EUVD EUVD-2026-59639Published 2026-08-15T12:28:12.000ZLast changed 2026-08-17T05:48:53.000ZCVSS 7.8
What the advisory describes
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.
Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.
Products the advisory names
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- Linux — Linux patch: 6.18.44; e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec <ee1d7274102285d78a53161fc705a8d8cd40b066; e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec <0679c0c189d2548f00e1bac95be28e2df5c6c7f7; patch: 6.12.103; patch: 7.1.8; patch: 6.6.151; e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec <8d5d28285728be47c82fdf1c48be4268293c90e7; 6.4; e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec <778ccbded2c8749c5be7f0dfa04fc9977a36fb7e; e6fd6d7e5f0fe4a17a08e892afb5db800e7794ec <6e26a41c4c1a706edaaa7c7dffc6b3b945707a55; patch: 7.2; patch: 0
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- Linux — Linux
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