CVE-2026-43061

ANALYSIS PENDING

serial: 8250: Fix TX deadlock when using DMA

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: 8250: Fix TX deadlock when using DMA `dmaengine_terminate_async` does not guarantee that the `__dma_tx_complete` callback will run. The callback is currently the only place where `dma->tx_running` gets cleared. If the transaction is canceled and the callback never runs, then `dma->tx_running` will never get cleared and we will never schedule new TX DMA transactions again. This change makes it so we clear `dma->tx_running` after we terminate the DMA transaction. This is "safe" because `serial8250_tx_dma_flush` is holding the UART port lock. The first thing the callback does is also grab the UART port lock, so access to `dma->tx_running` is serialized.

Scores

EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.6%

Details

Status published
Products (27)
Linux/Linux < 6.14
Linux/Linux 5.10.235 - 5.10.253
Linux/Linux 5.10.253 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.179 - 5.15.203
Linux/Linux 5.15.203 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.4.291 - 5.5
Linux/Linux 59f751db7f392fa7a58cbd972205982f7f4f5854
Linux/Linux 5e00346deb7bf40a4cf70e3716ac8e9a2409eb55 - d2719a0a9c3439abf67843a5504b7afccd9ded93
Linux/Linux 6.1.129 - 6.1.167
Linux/Linux 6.1.167 - 6.1.*
... and 17 more
Published May 05, 2026
Tracked Since May 05, 2026