CVE-2026-68211 PUBLISHED

media: stm32-dcmipp: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

media: stm32-dcmipp: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before calling start_streaming(). If start_streaming() returns an error without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(), vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued buffers leak.

dcmipp_bytecap_start_streaming() returned -EINVAL when the source subdevice could not be resolved from the media graph, before pm_runtime_resume_and_get() and media_pipeline_start() had been called. The remaining error paths already converge on the err_buffer_done label, which calls dcmipp_bytecap_all_buffers_done(..., VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED). Jump to that label directly: the intermediate err_pm_put / err_media_pipeline_stop labels are skipped, which is correct because nothing they would undo has happened yet.

This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 28e0f37722965fa150af31d82101c95fd21aef60 to ed342a86bb2f9c1b44a0fc4f6b08c14073946e4f (excl.)
  • affected from 28e0f37722965fa150af31d82101c95fd21aef60 to 624af2d4b5e9d3dd366538e4fb4a2a037792a7e3 (excl.)
  • affected from 28e0f37722965fa150af31d82101c95fd21aef60 to ffc8eec06378a340d708c889184ab3e14b57d540 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc1 to * (incl.)

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