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CVE-2025-39870

7.8 high Analyzed

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Fix double free in idxd_setup_wqs() The clean up in idxd_setup_wqs() has had a couple bugs because the error handling is a bit subtle. It's simpler to just re-write it in a cleaner way. The issues here are: 1) If "idxd->max_wqs" is <= 0 then we call put_device(conf_dev) when "conf_dev" hasn't been initialized. 2) If kzalloc_node() fails then again "conf_dev" is invalid. It's either uninitialized or it points to the "conf_dev" from the previous iteration so it leads to a double free. It's better to free partial loop iterations within the loop and then the unwinding at the end can handle whole loop iterations. I also renamed the labels to describe what the goto does and not where the goto was located.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 5

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 7.8 · linux, debianNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 9

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.15:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 6