Bug 2546469 (CVE-2026-98324) - CVE-2026-98324 kernel: dmaengine: pxa: fix double counting of the hw descriptors
Summary: CVE-2026-98324 kernel: dmaengine: pxa: fix double counting of the hw descriptors
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98324
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:25 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-10 08:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:25:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: pxa: fix double counting of the hw descriptors

pxad_alloc_desc() was converted from

        kzalloc(struct_size(sw_desc, hw_desc, nb_hw_desc), GFP_NOWAIT)

to kzalloc_flex(), which sets the __counted_by() counter sw_desc->nb_desc
itself - but only where the compiler has __builtin_counted_by_ref(), so
from gcc 15.1 or clang 22.1 on. The loop below it still increments
nb_desc, which makes it come out doubled there and correct elsewhere.

nb_desc is what pxad_free_desc() iterates over and what
set_updater_desc() indexes from, so set it explicitly and drop the
increment. The error path has to lower it to the number of descriptors
allocated so far, otherwise pxad_free_desc() would free entries that were
never allocated.


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