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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43250"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:41.158Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:40:25.395Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43250"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43250.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43250"
title: "usb: chipidea: udc: fix DMA and SG cleanup in _ep_nuke()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: chipidea: udc: fix DMA and SG cleanup in _ep_nuke()\n\nThe ChipIdea UDC driver can encounter \"not page aligned sg buffer\"\nerrors when a USB device is reconnected after being disconnected\nduring an active transfer. This occurs because _ep_nuke() returns\nrequests to the gadget layer without properly unmapping DMA buffers\nor cleaning up scatter-gather bounce buffers.\n\nRoot cause:\nWhen a disconnect happens during a multi-segment DMA transfer, the\nrequest's num_mapped_sgs field and sgt.sgl pointer remain set with\nstale values. The request is returned to the gadget driver with status\n-ESHUTDOWN but still has active DMA state. If the gadget driver reuses\nthis request on reconnect without reinitializing it, the stale DMA\nstate causes _hardware_enqueue() to skip DMA mapping (seeing non-zero\nnum_mapped_sgs) and attempt to use freed/invalid DMA addresses,\nleading to alignment errors and potential memory corruption.\n\nThe normal completion path via _hardware_dequeue() properly calls\nusb_gadget_unmap_request_by_dev() and sglist_do_debounce() before\nreturning the request. The _ep_nuke() path must do the same cleanup\nto ensure requests are returned in a clean, reusable state.\n\nFix:\nAdd DMA unmapping and bounce buffer cleanup to _ep_nuke() to mirror\nthe cleanup sequence in _hardware_dequeue():\n- Call usb_gadget_unmap_request_by_dev() if num_mapped_sgs is set\n- Call sglist_do_debounce() with copy=false if bounce buffer exists\n\nThis ensures that when requests are returned due to endpoint shutdown,\nthey don't retain stale DMA mappings. The 'false' parameter to\nsglist_do_debounce() prevents copying data back (appropriate for\nshutdown path where transfer was aborted)."
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