CVE-2026-93168
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix CPU stall in xilinx_dma_poll_timeout
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix CPU stall in xilinx_dma_poll_timeout Currently when calling xilinx_dma_poll_timeout with delay_us=0 and a condition that is never fulfilled, the CPU busy-waits for prolonged time and the timeout triggers only with a massive delay causing a CPU stall. This happens due to a huge underestimation of wall clock time in poll_timeout_us_atomic. Commit 7349a69cf312 ("iopoll: Do not use timekeeping in read_poll_timeout_atomic()") changed the behavior to no longer use ktime_get at the expense of underestimation of wall clock time which appears to be very large for delay_us=0. Instead of timing out after approximately XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT microseconds, the timeout takes XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT * 1000 * (time that the overhead of the for loop in poll_timeout_us_atomic takes) which is in the range of several minutes for XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT=1000000. Fix this by using a non-zero value for delay_us. Use delay_us=10 to keep the delay in the hot path of starting DMA transfers minimal but still avoid CPU stalls in case of unexpected hardware failures. One-off measurement with delay_us=0 causes the cpu to busy wait around 7 minutes in the timeout case. After applying this patch with delay_us=10 the measured timeout was 1053428 microseconds which is roughly equivalent to the expected 1000000 microseconds specified in XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT. Add a constant XILINX_DMA_POLL_DELAY_US for delay_us value.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c | affected | git | 2ba67aa183a3ce174d534425b67eda84f6e3c896 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c | affected | git | c30a26d4987a01e619449bf170f584c007e07d75 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c | affected | git | f786e7b3adbf3bd14964a1cedf9d55b6ad91dcd7 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c | affected | git | 8b5654d317277e6e505c23f8fa7e415237fefc7f | Unavailable | None listed |
| 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c | affected | git | aa99c4d1d63bbc26a5fc4c667d89b2595743c19d | 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.6.160 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.114 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.57 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.2.6 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.2.* | None listed |
| 7.3 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |