CVE-2026-80654 PUBLISHED

soc: xilinx: Shutdown and free rx mailbox channel

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 28.08.2026 Updated: 28.08.2026

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

soc: xilinx: Shutdown and free rx mailbox channel

A mbox rx channel is requested using mbox_request_channel_byname() in probe. In remove callback, the rx mailbox channel is cleaned up when the rx_chan is NULL due to incorrect condition check. The mailbox channel is not shutdown and it can receive messages even after the device removal. This leads to use after free. Also the channel resources are not freed. Fix this by checking the rx_chan correctly.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ffdbae28d9d1af70b7d63ffd7827e9795cd8d0df to b0f748c563921a7918c78e6a599cefd54de7d688 (excl.)
  • affected from ffdbae28d9d1af70b7d63ffd7827e9795cd8d0df to a83e77d1e52c01c50096e6e97c57d34e0590d628 (excl.)
  • affected from ffdbae28d9d1af70b7d63ffd7827e9795cd8d0df to b5d2240c2c7bc8370e7ba54a2e1fe3919f55aee5 (excl.)
  • affected from ffdbae28d9d1af70b7d63ffd7827e9795cd8d0df to fdee7c66c0d7b6869c36b9f9a915abf29ab5b550 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.97 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.40 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.5 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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