Bug 2507124 (CVE-2026-64498) - CVE-2026-64498 kernel: iio: buffer: hw-consumer: free scan_mask on buffer release
Summary: CVE-2026-64498 kernel: iio: buffer: hw-consumer: free scan_mask on buffer rel...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64498
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-25 10:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-30 03:28 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-25 10:06:17 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: buffer: hw-consumer: free scan_mask on buffer release

The scan_mask lifetime changed in commit 9a2e1233d38c ("iio: buffer:
hw-consumer: remove redundant scan_mask flexible array").

Before that change, the scan mask storage was embedded in struct
hw_consumer_buffer, so iio_hw_buf_release() could free the whole
allocation with a single kfree(hw_buf).

That commit moved the scan mask to a separate bitmap_zalloc() allocation
stored in buffer.scan_mask, but left iio_hw_buf_release() unchanged.

Free the scan mask in iio_hw_buf_release() before freeing the buffer
wrapper.


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