CVE-2023-54020
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2023
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
dmaengine: sf-pdma: pdma_desc memory leak fix
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: sf-pdma: pdma_desc memory leak fix Commit b2cc5c465c2c ("dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add multithread support for a DMA channel") changed sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() to unconditionally allocate a new sf_pdma_desc each time it is called. The driver previously recycled descs, by checking the in_use flag, only allocating additional descs if the existing one was in use. This logic was removed in commit b2cc5c465c2c ("dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add multithread support for a DMA channel"), but sf_pdma_free_desc() was not changed to handle the new behaviour. As a result, each time sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() is called, the previous descriptor is leaked, over time leading to memory starvation: unreferenced object 0xffffffe008447300 (size 192): comm "irq/39-mchp_dsc", pid 343, jiffies 4294906910 (age 981.200s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 b8 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 70 08 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 ..p............. backtrace: [<00000000064a04f4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x1e/0x28 [<00000000018927a7>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x11e/0x178 [<000000002aea8d16>] sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy+0x40/0x112 Add the missing kfree() to sf_pdma_free_desc(), and remove the redundant in_use flag.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5ab2782c944e324008ef5d658f2494a9f0e3c5ac | affected | git | ad222c9af25e3f074c180e389b3477dce42afc4f | Unavailable | None listed |
| b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc | affected | git | 03fece43fa109beba7cc9948c02f5e2d1205d607 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc | affected | git | 8bd5040bd43f2b5ba3c898b09a3197a0c7ace126 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc | affected | git | b02e07015a5ac7bbc029da931ae17914b8ae0339 | Unavailable | None listed |
| b9b4992f897be9b0b9e3a3b956cab6b75ccc3f11 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 4c7350b1dd8a192af844de32fc99b9e34c876fda | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| a93b3f1e11971a91b6441b6d47488f4492cc113f | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.61 | affected | semver | 5.15.99 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.137 | affected | semver | 5.11 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.18.18 | affected | semver | 5.19 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.19.2 | affected | semver | 5.20 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 6.0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.99 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.16 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.2.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.2.* | None listed |
| 6.3 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |