# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72134"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:09.573Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:40:44.407Z"
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-2026-72134"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72134.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72134"
title: "spi: imx: reconfigure for PIO when DMA cannot be started"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: imx: reconfigure for PIO when DMA cannot be started\n\nWhen spi_imx_can_dma() selects DMA, the ECSPI is configured for DMA:\nspi_imx_setupxfer() sets CTRL.SMC and clears dynamic_burst, and\nspi_imx_dma_transfer() programs the dynamic-burst BURST_LENGTH and the\nSDMA watermarks.\n\nIf the DMA descriptor cannot be prepared (dmaengine_prep_slave_single()\nreturns NULL), the transfer is failed with SPI_TRANS_FAIL_NO_START and\nfalls back to PIO. The dynamic-burst DMA path uses its own bounce\nbuffers instead of the SPI core's mapping, so xfer-\u003e{tx,rx}_sg_mapped\nare not set and the core's DMA-\u003ePIO retry is skipped; the driver falls\nback to PIO internally. But none of the DMA-mode configuration is\nundone, so the PIO transfer runs with CTRL.SMC set, the wrong burst\nlength and dynamic_burst cleared, and the transferred data is corrupted.\n\nThis is easily hit on i.MX8MP boards that describe ECSPI DMA in the\ndevice tree but run SDMA on ROM firmware (no external sdma-imx7d.bin):\nevery ECSPI DMA prepare fails. An Infineon SLB9670 TPM on ECSPI1 then\nreturns shifted TPM2_GetCapability data, is flagged \"field failure\nmode\", /dev/tpmrm0 is never created.\n\nSet controller-\u003efallback before re-running spi_imx_setupxfer() so the\nECSPI is reconfigured exactly like a normal PIO transfer. With\ncontroller-\u003efallback set, spi_imx_setupxfer() sees spi_imx_can_dma()\nreturn false, so it clears spi_imx-\u003eusedma and reprograms the controller\n(clears CTRL.SMC, restores dynamic_burst and the PIO burst length). No\nexplicit spi_imx-\u003eusedma = false is needed: setupxfer() already updates\nit from the can_dma() result."
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