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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68330"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:03:06.542Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:03:28.769Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68330"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68330.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68330"
title: "net: airoha: Fix DMA direction for NPU mailbox buffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: airoha: Fix DMA direction for NPU mailbox buffer\n\nairoha_npu_send_msg() always maps the mailbox buffer with DMA_TO_DEVICE,\nbut some callers expect the NPU to write response data back into the\nsame buffer:\n\n- airoha_npu_wlan_msg_get() (NPU_OP_GET): NPU writes response into\n  the buffer, then the caller reads it via memcpy()\n- airoha_npu_ppe_stats_setup() (NPU_OP_SET): NPU writes back\n  npu_stats_addr field in the response\n\nOn non-cache-coherent architectures like EN7581 (Cortex-A53 without\nhardware cache coherency for NPU DMA), DMA_TO_DEVICE unmap is a no-op\n— it does not invalidate the CPU cache. If the NPU-written cache line\nis still present in the CPU cache when the caller reads the buffer,\nthe CPU observes stale data instead of the NPU response.\n\nThis is a timing-sensitive bug: small mailbox buffers (~24 bytes)\ntypically fit in a single cache line and may survive in the cache\nuntil the caller reads them, producing silent data corruption rather\nthan a crash. The bug is more likely to trigger when the caller reads\nthe response immediately after dma_unmap_single() without intervening\ncache-evicting operations.\n\nFix by using DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL for both map and unmap, which ensures\ndma_unmap_single() invalidates the CPU cache on non-coherent systems.\nThe mailbox buffers are small so there is no performance concern."
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