CVE-2023-54020 (GCVE-0-2023-54020)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:31
VLAI
Title
dmaengine: sf-pdma: pdma_desc memory leak fix
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: sf-pdma: pdma_desc memory leak fix Commit b2cc5c465c2c ("dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add multithread support for a DMA channel") changed sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() to unconditionally allocate a new sf_pdma_desc each time it is called. The driver previously recycled descs, by checking the in_use flag, only allocating additional descs if the existing one was in use. This logic was removed in commit b2cc5c465c2c ("dmaengine: sf-pdma: Add multithread support for a DMA channel"), but sf_pdma_free_desc() was not changed to handle the new behaviour. As a result, each time sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy() is called, the previous descriptor is leaked, over time leading to memory starvation: unreferenced object 0xffffffe008447300 (size 192): comm "irq/39-mchp_dsc", pid 343, jiffies 4294906910 (age 981.200s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00 b8 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 70 08 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 ..p............. backtrace: [<00000000064a04f4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x1e/0x28 [<00000000018927a7>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x11e/0x178 [<000000002aea8d16>] sf_pdma_prep_dma_memcpy+0x40/0x112 Add the missing kfree() to sf_pdma_free_desc(), and remove the redundant in_use flag.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5ab2782c944e324008ef5d658f2494a9f0e3c5ac , < ad222c9af25e3f074c180e389b3477dce42afc4f (git)
Affected: b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc , < 03fece43fa109beba7cc9948c02f5e2d1205d607 (git)
Affected: b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc , < 8bd5040bd43f2b5ba3c898b09a3197a0c7ace126 (git)
Affected: b2cc5c465c2cb8ab697c3fd6583c614e3f6cfbcc , < b02e07015a5ac7bbc029da931ae17914b8ae0339 (git)
Affected: b9b4992f897be9b0b9e3a3b956cab6b75ccc3f11 (git)
Affected: 4c7350b1dd8a192af844de32fc99b9e34c876fda (git)
Affected: a93b3f1e11971a91b6441b6d47488f4492cc113f (git)
Affected: 5.15.61 , < 5.15.99 (semver)
Affected: 5.10.137 , < 5.11 (semver)
Affected: 5.18.18 , < 5.19 (semver)
Affected: 5.19.2 , < 5.20 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.99 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.16 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.3 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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