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CVE-2026-93168

dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix CPU stall in xilinx_dma_poll_timeout

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Linux

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: xilinx_dma: Fix CPU stall in xilinx_dma_poll_timeout Currently when calling xilinx_dma_poll_timeout with delay_us=0 and a condition that is never fulfilled, the CPU busy-waits for prolonged time and the timeout triggers only with a massive delay causing a CPU stall. This happens due to a huge underestimation of wall clock time in poll_timeout_us_atomic. Commit 7349a69cf312 ("iopoll: Do not use timekeeping in read_poll_timeout_atomic()") changed the behavior to no longer use ktime_get at the expense of underestimation of wall clock time which appears to be very large for delay_us=0. Instead of timing out after approximately XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT microseconds, the timeout takes XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT * 1000 * (time that the overhead of the for loop in poll_timeout_us_atomic takes) which is in the range of several minutes for XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT=1000000. Fix this by using a non-zero value for delay_us. Use delay_us=10 to keep the delay in the hot path of starting DMA transfers minimal but still avoid CPU stalls in case of unexpected hardware failures. One-off measurement with delay_us=0 causes the cpu to busy wait around 7 minutes in the timeout case. After applying this patch with delay_us=10 the measured timeout was 1053428 microseconds which is roughly equivalent to the expected 1000000 microseconds specified in XILINX_DMA_LOOP_COUNT. Add a constant XILINX_DMA_POLL_DELAY_US for delay_us value.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c to < 4237b5cc181a17f5a2a797655c1ce2c64e01c550affected
  • 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c to < 2ba67aa183a3ce174d534425b67eda84f6e3c896affected
  • 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c to < c30a26d4987a01e619449bf170f584c007e07d75affected
  • 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c to < f786e7b3adbf3bd14964a1cedf9d55b6ad91dcd7affected
  • 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c to < 8b5654d317277e6e505c23f8fa7e415237fefc7faffected
  • 9495f2648287029fb5545c34a0fa318426ebe84c to < aa99c4d1d63bbc26a5fc4c667d89b2595743c19daffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.6affected
  • 0 to < 4.6unaffected
  • 6.1.191 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.160 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.114 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.57 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.6 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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