dmaengine: dw-edma: Serialize channel state checks
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: dw-edma: Serialize channel state checks pause() and resume() read and update channel state without holding vc.lock, while the interrupt handlers update the same state under it. Take the same lock around those state checks so that request, status, and configured stay consistent. For example, pause() can observe EDMA_ST_BUSY right before the interrupt handler completes the final descriptor and moves the channel to EDMA_ST_IDLE, and then record EDMA_REQ_PAUSE on an already idle channel. No further interrupt will acknowledge the request, and since issue_pending() requires EDMA_REQ_NONE, the channel is wedged for good: terminate_all() leaves the stale request behind, so even reconfiguring the channel does not recover it. issue_pending() already runs under vc.lock, but it tests configured before taking it. Move that test under the lock as well, so configured, request, and status are evaluated as one channel-state snapshot.
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 5.10.270, 5.15.221, 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.110, 6.18.52, 7.2.6, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-93040
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3g95-h923-8hfc
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-20 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-20 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be0072af8ce6e9458cc586e0e8b41a251e7d4316
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d76b91deeab973dd8a8c2ee587ce27f881de768
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3001cfcee30dcc81f8b3774319c12067f126e49a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6293a8a38f4d5866ce1a264c138265a02e4c53a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da16a02f0998a0d455ce6265b836b29ad92e6e58
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe0ffa0190e862ed71e8c1a476090f648c9cb7d9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fc436e1500c5e4f0dde2a3dbadf6d898057be8f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d1619f3e10c619b62c6cd6d95371b5c526c85a
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Sources
- CVE-2026-93040 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-93040 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3g95-h923-8hfc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-93040 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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