GHSA-36w9-6524-pc79HighCVSS 8.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dma-direct: return struct...

Published
September 16, 2026
Last Modified
September 16, 2026

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📋 Description

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

dma-direct: return struct page from dma_direct_alloc_from_pool()

Commit 5b138c534fda ("dma-direct: factor out a dma_direct_alloc_from_pool helper") changed dma_direct_alloc_from_pool() to return the CPU address from dma_alloc_from_pool(). That fits dma_direct_alloc(), but dma_direct_alloc_pages() also uses the helper and expects a struct page *.

Fix this by making dma_direct_alloc_from_pool() return the struct page * again, and pass the CPU address back through an out-parameter for the dma_direct_alloc() caller.

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