CVE-2026-89881: vulnerability in Linux
media: rtl2832_sdr: use vb2_video_unregister_device() on remove to fix DMA leak
Published
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 90% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: rtl2832_sdr: use vb2_video_unregister_device() on remove to fix DMA leak
rtl2832_sdr_remove() runs on USB disconnect and clears dev->udev to
NULL before any pending streaming teardown has run. When user space
later closes its file descriptor, vb2 calls rtl2832_sdr_stop_streaming()
which in turn calls rtl2832_sdr_free_stream_bufs(). That helper releases
each coherent buffer with:
usb_free_coherent(dev->udev, dev->buf_size,
dev->buf_list[dev->buf_num],
dev->dma_addr[dev->buf_num]);
usb_free_coherent() returns immediately when its dev argument is NULL,
so every DMA stream buffer that was live at disconnect is silently
leaked. The URBs allocated in rtl2832_sdr_alloc_urbs() outlive the
device for the same reason.
The rtl2832_sdr driver uses vb2_fop_release() in its file_operations,
so replace video_unregister_device(&dev->vdev) with
vb2_video_unregister_device(&dev->vdev) and move it before clearing
dev->udev. vb2_video_unregister_device() releases the vb2 queue, which
synchronously runs rtl2832_sdr_stop_streaming() if streaming is active,
so URBs and coherent DMA stream buffers are freed while dev->udev is
still valid.
vb2_video_unregister_device() locks vdev->queue->lock (vb_queue_lock)
internally, and stop_streaming() locks v4l2_lock, so the previous outer
mutex_lock(&dev->vb_queue_lock) / mutex_lock(&dev->v4l2_lock) pair
around the unregister sequence would self-deadlock and has been removed.
A short v4l2_lock critical section around dev->udev = NULL remains so
any ioctl path that still holds the file descriptor sees coherent state.
Issue identified by automated review of the INV-003 series at
https://sashiko.dev/
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/034b6a4f9589c04bc3f2bd5125658cd72d3e17c8https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/053581d4657c6b5289c5de71a4828d313c005189https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ef9f19010ae4ba93aca211ea8f0081b9bf7aab2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/234c46b95a032232e31fa5987b84fb8f87a9693bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7443b16b6dd8889a3b9c5236a09e7c58f0d11daehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0d9d9a3b41a1346c26af57aade6ba3f552fa171https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbf15e83c37d9ac938b7c35c02b748fe54230010https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dabb047c62668f280998e29117c55e41aabac336