CVE-2026-90214 PUBLISHED

ASoC: xilinx: formatter_pcm: fix stream_data leak on open error

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

ASoC: xilinx: formatter_pcm: fix stream_data leak on open error

In xlnx_formatter_pcm_open(), stream_data is allocated and adata->play_stream or adata->capture_stream is assigned early. If a later step, such as snd_pcm_hw_constraint_step() or snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer(), fails, the function returns the error immediately. ALSA does not call the close callback when open fails, so stream_data is leaked and the stream pointer is left dangling, pointing to a substream that ALSA frees. A later interrupt would then call snd_pcm_period_elapsed() on the freed substream.

Free stream_data and clear the stream pointer on the error paths.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6f6c3c36f0917be24587eeba818ab4fdfcb5465a to 5e1a2d9fff57f3a2b1a0f54d128d64245a253004 (excl.)
  • affected from 6f6c3c36f0917be24587eeba818ab4fdfcb5465a to edf81b293cba1b00a5e71becf184414f6991a6ca (excl.)
  • affected from 6f6c3c36f0917be24587eeba818ab4fdfcb5465a to 3fd89a51b8cfe788df67f54b716b305dd45b8468 (excl.)
  • affected from 6f6c3c36f0917be24587eeba818ab4fdfcb5465a to 8c38ae4a465691947977c25d10394da22a64a19f (excl.)
  • affected from 6f6c3c36f0917be24587eeba818ab4fdfcb5465a to 9030aa4e14b704dc39ee208207cb65064020d857 (excl.)
  • affected from 6f6c3c36f0917be24587eeba818ab4fdfcb5465a to 8b30628dfc2b2fad3b55a9441776a226035045fa (excl.)
  • affected from 6f6c3c36f0917be24587eeba818ab4fdfcb5465a to 4e0ce77df7d9808926719d7950a07fbad14ea9ef (excl.)
  • affected from 6f6c3c36f0917be24587eeba818ab4fdfcb5465a to b992511180e126150c6ad3580a6fd568c385f4c6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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