CVE-2026-89995 (GCVE-0-2026-89995)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-16 10:33
Modified
2026-10-21 12:49
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dma-direct: return struct page from dma_direct_alloc_from_pool() Commit 5b138c534fda ("dma-direct: factor out a dma_direct_alloc_from_pool helper") changed dma_direct_alloc_from_pool() to return the CPU address from dma_alloc_from_pool(). That fits dma_direct_alloc(), but dma_direct_alloc_pages() also uses the helper and expects a struct page *. Fix this by making dma_direct_alloc_from_pool() return the struct page * again, and pass the CPU address back through an out-parameter for the dma_direct_alloc() caller.
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Linux Linux Version: 5b138c534fda57c2ebc1e6de72578aa1d70788a6
Version: 5b138c534fda57c2ebc1e6de72578aa1d70788a6
Version: 5b138c534fda57c2ebc1e6de72578aa1d70788a6
Version: 5b138c534fda57c2ebc1e6de72578aa1d70788a6
Version: 5b138c534fda57c2ebc1e6de72578aa1d70788a6
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