GHSA-2m3p-78c9-6w3jHighCVSS 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-core: fix wrong...

Published
March 18, 2026
Last Modified
October 15, 2026

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📋 Description

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

media: dvb-core: fix wrong reinitialization of ringbuffer on reopen

dvb_dvr_open() calls dvb_ringbuffer_init() when a new reader opens the DVR device. dvb_ringbuffer_init() calls init_waitqueue_head(), which reinitializes the waitqueue list head to empty.

Since dmxdev->dvr_buffer.queue is a shared waitqueue (all opens of the same DVR device share it), this orphans any existing waitqueue entries from io_uring poll or epoll, leaving them with stale prev/next pointers while the list head is reset to {self, self}.

The waitqueue and spinlock in dvr_buffer are already properly initialized once in dvb_dmxdev_init(). The open path only needs to reset the buffer data pointer, size, and read/write positions.

Replace the dvb_ringbuffer_init() call in dvb_dvr_open() with direct assignment of data/size and a call to dvb_ringbuffer_reset(), which properly resets pread, pwrite, and error with correct memory ordering without touching the waitqueue or spinlock.

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