Bug 2546372 (CVE-2026-98242)

Summary:	CVE-2026-98242 kernel: dma-buf: Fix silent overflow for phys vec to sgt
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's DMA-BUF subsystem. An integer truncation occurs when processing peer-to-peer Direct Memory Access (DMA) transfers with memory-mapped input/output regions exceeding four gigabytes. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause memory corruption, potentially leading to system instability and a Denial of Service (DoS).	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:08:02 UTC

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

dma-buf: Fix silent overflow for phys vec to sgt

In case MMIO size is bigger than 4G and peer2peer DMA goes
through host bridge, we trigger a code path that assigns the
total linked IOVA (which is greater than 4G) to mapped_len.

Previously, `mapped_len` was declared as 32-bit `unsigned int`.
When accumulating `size_t` lengths, this leads to a silent wrap-around.
This truncation causes truncated lengths to be passed to functions
like `fill_sg_entry()`.

Fix this by changing `mapped_len` to `size_t` (64-bit). While
at it, fix similar potential overflow issues in `calc_sg_nents`
by using `check_add_overflow()` for `nents` and using
`unsigned int` for the loop iterator in `fill_sg_entry` to match.