Bug 2511937 (CVE-2026-64590)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-64590 kernel: dma-buf/udmabuf: skip redundant cpu sync to fix cacheline EEXIST warning | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
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| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's `dma-buf` subsystem, specifically within the `udmabuf` component. When the `CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG_SG` option is enabled, importing a `udmabuf` into a Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver can trigger a spurious warning about overlapping cacheline mappings. This occurs because `udmabuf` does not correctly pass the `DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC` flag during scatter-gather list mapping, leading to redundant CPU cache synchronization and an unnecessary debugging alert. While the cacheline overlap itself is harmless when the correct flag is used, the presence of this warning indicates an inefficiency in resource handling within the kernel's DMA (Direct Memory Access) API debugging infrastructure.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dma-buf/udmabuf: skip redundant cpu sync to fix cacheline EEXIST warning When CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG_SG is enabled, importing a udmabuf into a DRM driver (e.g. amdgpu for video playback in GNOME Videos / Showtime) triggers a spurious warning: DMA-API: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: cacheline tracking EEXIST, \ overlapping mappings aren't supported WARNING: kernel/dma/debug.c:619 at add_dma_entry+0x473/0x5f0 The call chain is: amdgpu_cs_ioctl -> amdgpu_ttm_backend_bind -> dma_buf_map_attachment -> [udmabuf] map_udmabuf -> get_sg_table -> dma_map_sgtable(dev, sg, direction, 0) // attrs=0 -> debug_dma_map_sg -> add_dma_entry -> EEXIST This happens because udmabuf builds a per-page scatter-gather list via sg_set_folio(). When begin_cpu_udmabuf() has already created an sg table mapped for the misc device, and an importer such as amdgpu maps the same pages for its own device via map_udmabuf(), the DMA debug infrastructure sees two active mappings whose physical addresses share cacheline boundaries and warns about the overlap. The DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC flag suppresses this check in add_dma_entry() because it signals that no CPU cache maintenance is performed at map/unmap time, making the cacheline overlap harmless. All other major dma-buf exporters already pass this flag: - drm_gem_map_dma_buf() passes DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC - amdgpu_dma_buf_map() passes DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC The CPU sync at map/unmap time is also redundant for udmabuf: begin_cpu_udmabuf() and end_cpu_udmabuf() already perform explicit cache synchronization via dma_sync_sgtable_for_cpu/device() when CPU access is requested through the dma-buf interface. Pass DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC to dma_map_sgtable() and dma_unmap_sgtable() in udmabuf to suppress the spurious warning and skip the redundant sync.