CVE-2026-89976 PUBLISHED

accel/ethosu: fix job completion fence cleanup

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

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

accel/ethosu: fix job completion fence cleanup

ethosu_ioctl_submit_job() allocates done_fence before validating buffer handles. Errors after allocation call ethosu_job_err_cleanup(), which frees the job but leaks the uninitialized fence.

A scheduler dependency error also lets ethosu_job_run() return before dma_fence_init(). Normal cleanup then passes a zeroed refcount to dma_fence_put().

Release done_fence in the common cleanup path and use dma_fence_was_initialized() to distinguish initialized fences from raw allocations.

[robh: also fix goto]

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5a5e9c0228e613f0ef2a58b9782d7c0ea8f1e58b to b3e0f79af1f27339d8d2527c02cc3e8397c2f69f (excl.)
  • affected from 5a5e9c0228e613f0ef2a58b9782d7c0ea8f1e58b to 2d2a3adc91950f9a18829dadc7317fb5180a15c5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.19 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.5 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc2 to * (incl.)

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