Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.15.219 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: do file ownership checks with the proper mount idmap
Ever since idmapped mounts were introduced, inode ownership checks (for
side-channel protection) in mincore() and madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) were done
against the nop_mnt_idmap, which completely ignores the file's mount's
idmap. This results in odd edgecases like:
1) mount/bind-mount with an idmap userA:userB:1
2) userB runs an owner_or_capable() check on file that is owned by userA
on-disk/in-memory, but owned by userB after idmap translation
3) owner_or_capable() mysteriously fails as the correct idmap wasn't supplied
In the case of mincore/madvise MADV_PAGEOUT, this is usually benign,
because file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE) will probably succeed, as it uses
the proper idmap internally, but it does not need to be the case on e.g a
0444 file where even the owner itself doesn't have permissions to write to
it.
Since this is clearly not trivial to get right, introduce a
file_owner_or_capable() that can carry the correct semantics, and switch
the various users in mm to it.
The issue was found by manual code inspection & an off-list discussion
with Jan Kara.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fpga: dfl-afu: validate DMA mapping length in afu_dma_map_region()
afu_ioctl_dma_map() accepts a 64-bit length from userspace via
DFL_FPGA_PORT_DMA_MAP ioctl without an upper bound check. The value
is passed to afu_dma_pin_pages() where npages is derived as
length >> PAGE_SHIFT and passed to pin_user_pages_fast() which takes
int nr_pages, causing implicit truncation if length is very large.
Validate map.length at the ioctl entry point before calling
afu_dma_map_region(), rejecting values whose page count exceeds
INT_MAX.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: mms114 - reject an oversized device packet size
mms114_interrupt() reads a packet of touch data from the device into a
fixed-size on-stack buffer
struct mms114_touch touch[MMS114_MAX_TOUCH];
which holds MMS114_MAX_TOUCH (10) events of MMS114_EVENT_SIZE (8) bytes,
i.e. 80 bytes. The length of the I2C read into it is taken verbatim from
the device:
packet_size = mms114_read_reg(data, MMS114_PACKET_SIZE);
if (packet_size <= 0)
goto out;
...
error = __mms114_read_reg(data, MMS114_INFORMATION, packet_size,
(u8 *)touch);
packet_size is a single device register byte (0x0F) and the only check
is the lower bound packet_size <= 0; it is never bounded against the
size of touch[]. A malfunctioning, malicious or counterfeit controller
(or an attacker tampering with the I2C bus) can report a packet_size of
up to 255, so __mms114_read_reg() writes up to 175 bytes past the end of
touch[] on the IRQ-thread stack: a stack out-of-bounds write that can
overwrite the stack canary, saved registers and the return address.
A well-formed device never reports more than the buffer holds, so reject
an oversized packet and drop the report, consistent with the handler's
other error paths, rather than reading past the buffer.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: mms114 - fix touch indexing for MMS134S and MMS136
The MMS134S and MMS136 touch controllers have an event size of 6 bytes
rather than 8 bytes. When __mms114_read_reg() reads the touch data
packet from the device into the touch buffer, the events are packed
tightly at 6-byte intervals. However, the driver iterates through the
events using standard C array indexing (touch[index]), where each
element is sizeof(struct mms114_touch) (8 bytes) apart. As a result, any
touch events beyond the first one are read from incorrect offsets and
parsed improperly.
Fix this by explicitly calculating the byte offset for each touch event
based on the device's specific event size.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: reject overlapping data areas in SMB2 responses
Commit 53b7c271f06b ("smb: client: restrict implied bcc[0] exemption to
responses without data area") restricted the implied bcc[0] length
exception to responses without a data area. However, the overlap
handling in __smb2_calc_size() clears data_length, which can make an
invalid response appear to have no data area and so qualify for the
exception.
Track data area overlap separately and reject such responses before
applying the length compatibility exceptions.
CVSS Score
9.1
EPSS Score
0.007
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpio: rockchip: teardown bugs and resource leaks
Address several teardown issues and resource leaks in the driver's remove
path and error handling:
1. Debounce clock reference leak: The debounce clock (bank->db_clk) is
obtained using of_clk_get() which increments the clock's reference
count, but clk_put() is never called. Register a devm action to
cleanly release it on unbind. Note that of_clk_get(..., 1) remains
necessary over devm_clk_get() because the DT binding does not define
clock-names, precluding name-based lookup.
2. Unregistered chained IRQ handler: The chained IRQ handler is not
disconnected in remove(). If a stray interrupt fires after the driver
is removed, the kernel attempts to execute a stale handler, leading
to a panic. Fix this by clearing the handler in remove().
3. IRQ domain leak: The linear IRQ domain and its generic chips are
allocated manually during probe but never removed. Remove the IRQ
domain during driver teardown to free the associated generic chips
and mappings.
[Bartosz: don't emit an error message on devres allocation failure]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/dsi: don't dump registers past the mapped region
On DSI 6G platforms the IO address space is internally adjusted by
io_offset. Later this adjusted address might be used for memory dumping.
However the size that is used for memory dumping isn't adjusted to
account for the io_offset, leading to the potential access to the
unmapped region. Lower ctrl_size by the io_offset value to prevent
access past the mapped area.
msm_disp_snapshot_add_block+0x1d4/0x3c8 [msm] (P)
msm_dsi_host_snapshot+0x4c/0x78 [msm]
msm_dsi_snapshot+0x28/0x50 [msm]
msm_disp_snapshot_capture_state+0x74/0x140 [msm]
msm_disp_snapshot_state_sync+0x60/0x90 [msm]
_msm_disp_snapshot_work+0x30/0x90 [msm]
kthread_worker_fn+0xdc/0x460
kthread+0x120/0x140
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/721747/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix unlocked writing to ICOSQ
During napi poll, when the affinity changes and there's still XSK work
to be done, we trigger an ICOSQ interrupt on the new CPU. However, this
triggering on the ICOSQ is done unprotected.
There are 2 such races:
A) mlx5e_trigger_irq() is called while mlx5e_xsk_alloc_rx_mpwqe() is
running from a different CPU due to affinity change. This can happen
because IRQ triggering is done after napi_complete_done(). At this point
the NAPI can be scheduled on a different CPU. Like this:
CPU A (old affinity, NAPI tail) CPU B (new affinity, fresh NAPI)
------------------------------- --------------------------------
napi_complete_done() clears SCHED
mlx5e_cq_arm(...)
napi_schedule_prep() sets SCHED
mlx5e_napi_poll()
mlx5e_xsk_alloc_rx_mpwqe()
mlx5e_icosq_sync_lock() // noop
memcpy 640 B UMR body
advance sq->pc by 10
mlx5e_trigger_irq(&c->icosq)
wqe_info[pi] = {NOP, 1}
mlx5e_post_nop() advances sq->pc
B) mlx5e_trigger_irq() is called on the ICOSQ when
mlx5e_trigger_napi_icosq() is running.
The obvious fix would be to lock the ICOSQ. But ICOSQ has an optimized
locking scheme that doesn't work for this scenario. Kick the async ICOSQ
instead which is always locked.
This issue was noticed in the wild with the following splat:
netdevice: ge-0-0-1: Bad OP in ICOSQ CQE: 0xd
WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c:826 [...]
[...]
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
mlx5e_napi_poll+0x11d/0x7f0 [mlx5_core]
__napi_poll+0x30/0x200
? skb_defer_free_flush+0x9c/0xc0
net_rx_action+0x2fe/0x3f0
handle_softirqs+0xd8/0x340
__irq_exit_rcu+0xbc/0xe0
common_interrupt+0x85/0xa0
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_common_interrupt+0x26/0x40
[...]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
mlx5_core 0000:08:00.0 ge-0-0-1: Error cqe on cqn 0x548, ci 0x2022, qn 0x8f4,
opcode 0xd, syndrome 0x2, vendor syndrome 0x68
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000030: 00 00 00 00 01 00 68 02 01 00 08 f4 de 14 59 d2
WQE DUMP: WQ size 16384 WQ cur size 0, WQE index 0x1e14, len: 64
00000000: 00 00 00 01 d9 ed 80 02 00 00 00 01 d9 ed 90 02
00000010: 00 00 00 01 d9 ed a0 02 00 00 00 01 d9 ed b0 02
00000020: 00 00 00 01 d9 ed c0 02 00 00 00 01 d9 ed d0 02
00000030: 00 00 00 01 d9 ed e0 02 00 00 00 01 d9 ed f0 02
mlx5_core 0000:08:00.0 ge-0-0-1: Error cqe on cqn 0x548, ci 0x2023, qn 0x8f4,
opcode 0xd, syndrome 0x5, vendor syndrome 0xf9
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000030: 00 00 00 00 01 00 f9 05 01 00 08 f4 de 15 cf d2
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: don't dereference a pointer before NULL checking it
In iwl_mld_remove_link, the link->fw_id is saved at the beginning of the
function so we have it after we freed the link.
But the link pointer can be NULL, and is not checked when the fw_id is
stored.
Fix it by simply freeing the link at the end of the function.
fFixes: 0e66a39f4f0e ("wifi: iwlwifi: fix potential use after free in iwl_mld_remove_link()")
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (lm90) Add lock protection to lm90_alert
Sashiko reports:
lm90_alert() executes in the smbus alert context and calls
lm90_update_confreg() to disable the hardware alert line, without
acquiring hwmon_lock.
Concurrently, sysfs write operations (such as lm90_write_convrate) hold
the hwmon_lock, temporarily modify data->config, and then restore it.
If an alert interrupt occurs concurrently with a sysfs write, the sysfs
path will overwrite the alert handler's modifications to data->config
and the hardware register.
This unintentionally re-enables the hardware alert line while the alarm is
still active, causing an interrupt storm.
Add the missing lock to lm90_alert() to solve the problem.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24