Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.16.12 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fuse: fix uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate()
fuse_dentry_revalidate() may be called with a dentry that didn't had
->d_time initialised. The issue was found with KMSAN, where lookup_open()
calls __d_alloc(), followed by d_revalidate(), as shown below:
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394
fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394
d_revalidate fs/namei.c:1030 [inline]
lookup_open fs/namei.c:4405 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline]
path_openat+0x1614/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827
do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859
[...]
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4466 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4788 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x382/0x1280 mm/slub.c:4807
__d_alloc+0x55/0xa00 fs/dcache.c:1740
d_alloc_parallel+0x99/0x2740 fs/dcache.c:2604
lookup_open fs/namei.c:4398 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline]
path_openat+0x135f/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827
do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859
[...]
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CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/riscv: Remove overflows on the invalidation path
Since RISC-V supports a sign extended page table it should support
a gather->end of ULONG_MAX, but if this happens it will infinite loop
because of the overflow.
Also avoid overflow computing the length by moving the +1 to the other
side of the <
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Avoid NULL dereference in dc_dmub_srv error paths
In dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data() and
dc_dmub_srv_enable_dpia_trace().
Both functions check:
if (!dc_dmub_srv || !dc_dmub_srv->dmub)
and then call DC_LOG_ERROR() inside that block.
DC_LOG_ERROR() uses dc_dmub_srv->ctx internally. So if
dc_dmub_srv is NULL, the logging itself can dereference a
NULL pointer and cause a crash.
Fix this by splitting the checks.
First check if dc_dmub_srv is NULL and return immediately.
Then check dc_dmub_srv->dmub and log the error only when
dc_dmub_srv is valid.
Fixes the below:
../display/dc/dc_dmub_srv.c:962 dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data() error: we previously assumed 'dc_dmub_srv' could be null (see line 961)
../display/dc/dc_dmub_srv.c:1167 dc_dmub_srv_enable_dpia_trace() error: we previously assumed 'dc_dmub_srv' could be null (see line 1166)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure
syzbot reported the following warning:
DEAD callback error for CPU1
WARNING: kernel/cpu.c:1463 at _cpu_down+0x759/0x1020 kernel/cpu.c:1463, CPU#0: syz.0.1960/14614
at commit 4ae12d8bd9a8 ("Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux")
which tglx traced to padata_cpu_dead() given it's the only
sub-CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU callback that returns an error.
Failure isn't allowed in hotplug states before CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU
so move the CPU offline callback to the ONLINE section where failure is
possible.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: airoha: Move ndesc initialization at end of airoha_qdma_init_rx_queue()
If queue entry or DMA descriptor list allocation fails in
airoha_qdma_init_rx_queue routine, airoha_qdma_cleanup() will trigger a
NULL pointer dereference running netif_napi_del() for RX queue NAPIs
since netif_napi_add() has never been executed to this particular RX NAPI.
The issue is due to the early ndesc initialization in
airoha_qdma_init_rx_queue() since airoha_qdma_cleanup() relies on ndesc
value to check if the queue is properly initialized. Fix the issue moving
ndesc initialization at end of airoha_qdma_init_tx routine.
Move page_pool allocation after descriptor list allocation in order to
avoid memory leaks if desc allocation fails.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: enetc: fix NTMP DMA use-after-free issue
The AI-generated review reported a potential DMA use-after-free issue
[1]. If netc_xmit_ntmp_cmd() times out and returns an error, the pending
command is not explicitly aborted, while ntmp_free_data_mem()
unconditionally frees the DMA buffer. If the buffer has already been
reallocated elsewhere, this may lead to silent memory corruption. Because
the hardware eventually processes the pending command and perform a DMA
write of the response to the physical address of the freed buffer.
To resolve this issue, this patch does the following modifications:
1. Convert cbdr->ring_lock from a spinlock to a mutex
The lock was originally a spinlock in case NTMP operations might be
invoked from atomic context. After downstream support for all NTMP
tables, no such usage has materialized. A mutex lock is now required
because the driver now needs to reclaim used BDs and release associated
DMA memory within the lock's context, while dma_free_coherent() might
sleep.
2. Introduce software command BD (struct netc_swcbd)
The hardware write-back overwrites the addr and len fields of the BD,
so the driver cannot rely on the hardware BD to free the associated DMA
memory. The driver now maintains a software shadow BD storing the DMA
buffer pointer, DMA address, and size. And netc_xmit_ntmp_cmd() only
reclaims older BDs when the number of used BDs reaches
NETC_CBDR_CLEAN_WORK (16). The software BD enables correct DMA memory
release. With this, struct ntmp_dma_buf and ntmp_free_data_mem() are no
longer needed and are removed.
3. Require callers to hold ring_lock across netc_xmit_ntmp_cmd()
netc_xmit_ntmp_cmd() releases the ring_lock before the caller finishes
consuming the response. At this point, if a concurrent thread submits
a new command, it may trigger ntmp_clean_cbdr() and free the DMA buffer
while it is still in use. Move ring_lock ownership to the caller to
ensure the response buffer cannot be reclaimed prematurely. So the
helpers ntmp_select_and_lock_cbdr() and ntmp_unlock_cbdr() are added.
These changes eliminate the DMA use-after-free condition and ensure safe
and consistent BD reclamation and DMA buffer lifecycle management.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
reset: amlogic: t7: Fix null reset ops
Fix missing reset ops causing kernel null pointer dereference.
This SOC's reset is currently not used yet.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: eip93 - fix hmac setkey algo selection
eip93_hmac_setkey() allocates a temporary ahash transform for
computing HMAC ipad/opad key material. The allocation uses the
driver-specific cra_driver_name (e.g. "sha256-eip93") but passes
CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC as the mask, which excludes async algorithms.
Since the EIP93 hash algorithms are the only ones registered
under those driver names and they are inherently async, the
lookup is self-contradictory and always fails with -ENOENT.
When called from the AEAD setkey path, this failure leaves the
SA record partially initialized with zeroed digest fields. A
subsequent crypto operation then dereferences a NULL pointer in
the request context, resulting in a kernel panic:
```
pc : eip93_aead_handle_result+0xc8c/0x1240 [crypto_hw_eip93]
lr : eip93_aead_handle_result+0xbec/0x1240 [crypto_hw_eip93]
sp : ffffffc082feb820
x29: ffffffc082feb820 x28: ffffff8011043980 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffffffc078da0bc8 x24: 0000000091043980
x23: ffffff8004d59e50 x22: ffffff8004d59410 x21: ffffff8004d593c0
x20: ffffff8004d593c0 x19: ffffff8004d4f300 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000007fda7aa498
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: fffffffff8127a80 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : ffffff8004d4f380 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : 0000000000000008 x3 : 0000000000000009
x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : 0000000028000003 x0 : ffffff8004d388c0
Code: 910142b6 f94012e0 f9002aa0 f90006d3 (f9400740)
```
The reported symbol eip93_aead_handle_result+0xc8c is a
resolution artifact from static functions being merged under
the nearest exported symbol. Decoding the faulting sequence:
```
910142b6 ADD X22, X21, #0x50
f94012e0 LDR X0, [X23, #0x20]
f9002aa0 STR X0, [X21, #0x50]
f90006d3 STR X19, [X22, #0x8]
f9400740 LDR X0, [X26, #0x8]
```
The faulting LDR at [X26, #0x8] is loading ctx->flags
(offset 8 in eip93_hash_ctx), where ctx has been resolved
to NULL from a partially initialized or unreachable
transform context following the failed setkey.
Fix this by dropping the CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC mask from the
crypto_alloc_ahash() call. The code already handles async
completion correctly via crypto_wait_req(), so there is no
requirement to restrict the lookup to synchronous algorithms.
Note that hashing a single 64-byte block through the hardware
is likely slower than doing it in software due to the DMA
round-trip overhead, but offloading it may still spare CPU
cycles on the slower embedded cores where this IP is found.
[Detailed investigation report of this bug]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: protect extension_list reading with sb_lock in f2fs_sbi_show()
In f2fs_sbi_show(), the extension_list, extension_count and
hot_ext_count are read without holding sbi->sb_lock. If a concurrent
sysfs store modifies the extension list via f2fs_update_extension_list(),
the show path may read inconsistent count and array contents, potentially
leading to out-of-bounds access or displaying stale data.
Fix this by holding sb_lock around the entire extension list read
and format operation.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: sg: Resolve soft lockup issue when opening /dev/sgX
The parameter def_reserved_size defines the default buffer size reserved
for each Sg_fd and should be restricted to a range between 0 and 1,048,576
(see https://tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Generic-HOWTO/proc.html). Although the
function sg_proc_write_dressz enforces this limit, it is possible to bypass
it by directly modifying the module parameter as shown below, which then
causes a soft lockup:
echo -1 > /sys/module/sg/parameters/def_reserved_size
exec 4<> /dev/sg0
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 26 seconds! [bash:537]
Modules loaded:
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 537 Command: bash, kernel version 6.19.0-rc3+ #134,
PREEMPT disabled
Hardware: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS version
1.16.1-2.fc37 dated 04/01/2014
...
Call Trace:
sg_build_reserve+0x5c/0xa0
sg_add_sfp+0x168/0x270
sg_open+0x16e/0x340
chrdev_open+0xbe/0x230
do_dentry_open+0x175/0x480
vfs_open+0x34/0xf0
do_open+0x265/0x3d0
path_openat+0x110/0x290
do_filp_open+0xc3/0x170
do_sys_openat2+0x71/0xe0
__x64_sys_openat+0x6d/0xa0
do_syscall_64+0x62/0x310
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
The fix is to use module_param_cb to validate and reject invalid values
assigned to def_reserved_size.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26