serial: qcom-geni: fix TX DMA buffer flush
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: qcom-geni: fix TX DMA buffer flush When transmit flushing a qcom-geni UART during an ongoing TX DMA, the UART gets stuck infinitely repeating corrupted TX DMA frames. The DMA-mode uart_ops does not provide a flush_buffer callback, so an in-flight transfer can complete after serial core has reset the transmit kfifo, underflowing its length and resubmitting page-sized transfers indefinitely. Add one that stops the transfer and clears tx_remaining and tx_queued. The stop path was also broken: it unmapped the buffer while the serial engine could still read it, and never reset the TX DMA state machine. Cancel the main sequencer command first, then reset the state machine and wait for it before unmapping. Drop the early return so a pending mapping is also cleaned up when the main command is inactive. The bug can be triggered from userspace with a large write immediately followed by TCOFLUSH. A following tcdrain will hang forever. The bug was reproduced and this fix was validated on Arduino Uno Q (QRB2210) using /dev/ttyHS1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.6.154, 6.12.104, 6.18.45, 7.1.9, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 4 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-74655
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fpvh-p63v-qp88
References
Other 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1606abb7ce8c0cfef98c7e556b83c14e5d73c1bf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/313ae287442e5e8d3f7b53b73f37d384bda072d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c31e2377f4c1bb110ca7f6e597b2253a7440c37
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1801c0d40f62778b613334de5840aba10a564d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3c04834ae1ab5e9cfbe8ac54ec734aa4774249d
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Sources
- CVE-2026-74655 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-74655 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fpvh-p63v-qp88 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-74655 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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