CVE-2026-43007 PUBLISHED

accel/qaic: Handle DBC deactivation if the owner went away

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 01.05.2026 Updated: 01.05.2026

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

accel/qaic: Handle DBC deactivation if the owner went away

When a DBC is released, the device sends a QAIC_TRANS_DEACTIVATE_FROM_DEV transaction to the host over the QAIC_CONTROL MHI channel. QAIC handles this by calling decode_deactivate() to release the resources allocated for that DBC. Since that handling is done in the qaic_manage_ioctl() context, if the user goes away before receiving and handling the deactivation, the host will be out-of-sync with the DBCs available for use, and the DBC resources will not be freed unless the device is removed. If another user loads and requests to activate a network, then the device assigns the same DBC to that network, QAIC will "indefinitely" wait for dbc->in_use = false, leading the user process to hang.

As a solution to this, handle QAIC_TRANS_DEACTIVATE_FROM_DEV transactions that are received after the user has gone away.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 129776ac2e38231fa9c02ce20e116c99de291666 to 2dd67966f39a2abf8ccb4865031c722e40e01b7f (excl.)
  • affected from 129776ac2e38231fa9c02ce20e116c99de291666 to 08021f2d4a557d6491e3bcc288e96425f50aa3cf (excl.)
  • affected from 129776ac2e38231fa9c02ce20e116c99de291666 to f403094d9075d7c565a3d81002b781c325cb3c07 (excl.)
  • affected from 129776ac2e38231fa9c02ce20e116c99de291666 to ee0180e77e6c8482644569632065411de844c515 (excl.)
  • affected from 129776ac2e38231fa9c02ce20e116c99de291666 to 2feec5ae5df785658924ab6bd91280dc3926507c (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.4 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.4 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.134 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.81 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.22 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.12 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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