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CVE-2026-93168

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84caffectedgit2ba67aa183a3ce174d534425b67eda84f6e3c896UnavailableNone listed
9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84caffectedgitc30a26d4987a01e619449bf170f584c007e07d75UnavailableNone listed
9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84caffectedgitf786e7b3adbf3bd14964a1cedf9d55b6ad91dcd7UnavailableNone listed
9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84caffectedgit8b5654d317277e6e505c23f8fa7e415237fefc7fUnavailableNone listed
9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84caffectedgitaa99c4d1d63bbc26a5fc4c667d89b2595743c19dUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.6affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.6UnavailableNone listed
6.6.160unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.114unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.57unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.2.6unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.2.*None listed
7.3unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed