CVE-2023-54020

Linux Kernel < 5.15.99, 5.16.0-6.1.15, 6.0.0-6.2.2 - Memory Leak in sf-pdma DMA Descriptor Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: sf-pdma: pdma_desc memory leak fix Commit b2cc5c465c2c ("dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add multithread support for a DMA channel") changed sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() to unconditionally allocate a new sf_pdma_desc each time it is called. The driver previously recycled descs, by checking the in_use flag, only allocating additional descs if the existing one was in use. This logic was removed in commit b2cc5c465c2c ("dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add multithread support for a DMA channel"), but sf_pdma_free_desc() was not changed to handle the new behaviour. As a result, each time sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() is called, the previous descriptor is leaked, over time leading to memory starvation: unreferenced object 0xffffffe008447300 (size 192): comm "irq/39-mchp_dsc", pid 343, jiffies 4294906910 (age 981.200s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 b8 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 70 08 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 ..p............. backtrace: [<00000000064a04f4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x1e/0x28 [<00000000018927a7>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x11e/0x178 [<000000002aea8d16>] sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy+0x40/0x112 Add the missing kfree() to sf_pdma_free_desc(), and remove the redundant in_use flag.

Scores

EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.7%

Details

Status published
Products (20)
linux/Kernel < 5.15.99linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.0.0 - 6.2.3linux
Linux/Linux < 6.0
Linux/Linux 4c7350b1dd8a192af844de32fc99b9e34c876fda
Linux/Linux 5.10.137 - 5.11
Linux/Linux 5.15.61 - 5.15.99
Linux/Linux 5.15.99 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.18.18 - 5.19
Linux/Linux 5.19.2 - 5.20
... and 10 more
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026