CVE-2026-80834 PUBLISHED

crypto: sun8i-ce - Remove crypto_rng interface

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 26.08.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

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

crypto: sun8i-ce - Remove crypto_rng interface

Since the crypto_rng interface for hardware PRNGs is unused and is redundant with hwrng and the actual Linux RNG, it's being phased out. Most drivers for it were already removed. Go ahead and remove the sun8i-ce support which is one of the only remaining ones.

Note that the sun8i-ce support for hwrng remains in place. That is the interface that actually matters.

As usual for crypto_rng, this driver was also buggy: its ->generate() function had a use-after-free vulnerability due to using wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() without handling shutting down the DMA operation if a signal is sent. There's no point in fixing this separately only to remove the code anyway, so this commit is marked with Fixes and Cc stable.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5eb7e946888493959b1c393144934afcbcd0cfc1 to 1017f987c5f0841f00408a78f947990c9d84b346 (excl.)
  • affected from 5eb7e946888493959b1c393144934afcbcd0cfc1 to 011556f71d094da61379ae3672692cae2795304e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.10 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.3 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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