CVE-2026-31440 PUBLISHED

dmaengine: idxd: Fix leaking event log memory

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 22.04.2026 Updated: 22.04.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: idxd: Fix leaking event log memory

During the device remove process, the device is reset, causing the configuration registers to go back to their default state, which is zero. As the driver is checking if the event log support was enabled before deallocating, it will fail if a reset happened before.

Do not check if the support was enabled, the check for 'idxd->evl' being valid (only allocated if the HW capability is available) is enough.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 244da66cda359227d80ccb41dbcb99da40eae186 to d94f9b0ba28a205caf95902ee88b42bdb8af83d0 (excl.)
  • affected from 244da66cda359227d80ccb41dbcb99da40eae186 to facd0012708e942fc12890708738aebde497564e (excl.)
  • affected from 244da66cda359227d80ccb41dbcb99da40eae186 to 9dfa00967e6ef43a9dd0887fe5c3a721a39da92e (excl.)
  • affected from 244da66cda359227d80ccb41dbcb99da40eae186 to ee66bc29578391c9b48523dc9119af67bd5c7c0f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.4 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.4 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.80 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.21 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.11 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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