CVE-2026-89874 PUBLISHED

media: v4l2-async: avoid deleting unlinked ASC entry on link error

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

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

media: v4l2-async: avoid deleting unlinked ASC entry on link error

v4l2_async_match_notify() creates ancillary media links before adding asc->asc_subdev_entry to sd->asc_list.

If ancillary link creation fails, the function jumps to err_call_unbind while asc_subdev_entry has not been linked yet. Async connections are zero-allocated, so the list entry still has NULL next and prev pointers on this path. Calling list_del() on it can therefore dereference NULL instead of returning the original link creation error.

Do not delete asc_subdev_entry from err_call_unbind. There is no list insertion to undo on this path; the bound callback and sub-device registration are the operations that need to be rolled back.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341 to d273571e531405426983c6a45ec635c7d0415eed (excl.)
  • affected from 28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341 to caac13f518d83974e9884d1eeda3d4cc3bb92978 (excl.)
  • affected from 28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341 to 3345746e0957bce6c53644838e4955710a82a962 (excl.)
  • affected from 28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341 to a57d94026cb4fd7b3d258f0db2ad391cbccfaba5 (excl.)
  • affected from 28a1295795d85a25f2e7dd391c43969e95fcb341 to 47d82b605351c0e04f6365e42c8ffe2fcfdba615 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.51 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.5 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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