Bug 2513297 (CVE-2026-68209) - CVE-2026-68209 kernel: media: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure
Summary: CVE-2026-68209 kernel: media: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_strea...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-68209
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-10 12:29 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-13 16:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:29:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before
calling start_streaming().  If start_streaming() returns an error
without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(),
vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued
buffers leak.

sun4i_csi_start_streaming() returned -EINVAL when no matching CSI
format could be found, before any setup (scratch buffer allocation,
pipeline start) had been performed.  The remaining error paths already
converge on the err_clear_dma_queue label, which calls
return_all_buffers(..., VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED) under csi->qlock.  Jump
to that label directly: the intermediate err_disable_device /
err_disable_pipeline / err_free_scratch_buffer labels are skipped,
which is correct because nothing they would undo has happened yet.

This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo:
Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").


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