CVE-2026-93039 PUBLISHED

ASoC: meson: Keep link pointers valid on realloc failure

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

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

ASoC: meson: Keep link pointers valid on realloc failure

meson_card_reallocate_links() grows the DAI link and private data arrays with two consecutive krealloc() calls and updates the owner pointers only after both calls have succeeded.

A successful krealloc() may move the data: it frees the old block and returns a new one. When that happens for the link array and the second krealloc() then fails, card->dai_link still points to the block that krealloc() already freed, and the error path frees the new block too. The probe error path then calls meson_card_clean_references(), which dereferences card->dai_link and kfree()s it again, resulting in a use-after-free and a double free.

Commit card->dai_link and card->num_links right after the first krealloc() succeeds, so the pointer always refers to a valid allocation that meson_card_clean_references() can walk and free. krealloc() with __GFP_ZERO zero-initializes the added entries, so walking them on the error path is safe. With both failure paths reduced to a plain return, drop the goto labels and the error message.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 7864a79f37b55769b817d5e6c5ae0ca4bfdba93b to de33afc57f24538186bccf4c4f6c65dd38634fd8 (excl.)
  • affected from 7864a79f37b55769b817d5e6c5ae0ca4bfdba93b to 1c1485343b7c1c39dab7ecb9cd16ba49fd0ce642 (excl.)
  • affected from 7864a79f37b55769b817d5e6c5ae0ca4bfdba93b to 8db0a0fc84e80aa9924e0833aef6cc95df94e5a7 (excl.)
  • affected from 7864a79f37b55769b817d5e6c5ae0ca4bfdba93b to 41e92e0caa1fe3df2efaca346bfcaeb7fb9826ab (excl.)
  • affected from 7864a79f37b55769b817d5e6c5ae0ca4bfdba93b to 0b30fbe6bf7cf6499b19dd886f466e7c9e820089 (excl.)
  • affected from 7864a79f37b55769b817d5e6c5ae0ca4bfdba93b to 8fec16898f184e5f8f8fdd09ff1ced2bd7ffc13d (excl.)
  • affected from 7864a79f37b55769b817d5e6c5ae0ca4bfdba93b to 5ed1b048527bebe4529eb6e01c34dcc5d97ba5fe (excl.)
  • affected from 7864a79f37b55769b817d5e6c5ae0ca4bfdba93b to 2aaa41cf974f83a6fb105422bac4e2f107150774 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.19 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.19 (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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