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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-53161

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 6/25/2026 5:16:33 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

misc: fastrpc: fix use-after-free of fastrpc_user in workqueue context

There is a race between fastrpc_device_release() and the workqueue
that processes DSP responses. When the user closes the file descriptor,
fastrpc_device_release() frees the fastrpc_user structure. Concurrently,
an in-flight DSP invocation can complete and fastrpc_rpmsg_callback()
schedules context cleanup via schedule_work(&ctx->put_work). If the
workqueue runs fastrpc_context_free() in parallel with or after
fastrpc_device_release() has freed the user structure, it dereferences
the freed fastrpc_user. Depending on the state of the context at the
time of the race, any one of the following accesses can be hit:

 1. fastrpc_buf_free() calls fastrpc_ipa_to_dma_addr(buf->fl->cctx, ...)
    to strip the SID bits from the stored IOVA before passing the
    physical address to dma_free_coherent().

 2. fastrpc_free_map() reads map->fl->cctx->vmperms[0].vmid to
    reconstruct the source permission bitmask needed for the
    qcom_scm_assign_mem() call that returns memory from the DSP VM
    back to HLOS.

 3. fastrpc_free_map() acquires map->fl->lock to safely remove the
    map node from the fl->maps list.

The resulting use-after-free manifests as:

  pc : fastrpc_buf_free+0x38/0x80 [fastrpc]
  lr : fastrpc_context_free+0xa8/0x1b0 [fastrpc]
  fastrpc_context_free+0xa8/0x1b0 [fastrpc]
  fastrpc_context_put_wq+0x78/0xa0 [fastrpc]
  process_one_work+0x180/0x450
  worker_thread+0x26c/0x388

Add kref-based reference counting to fastrpc_user. Have each invoke
context take a reference on the user at allocation time and release it
when the context is freed. Release the initial reference in
fastrpc_device_release() at file close. Move the teardown of the user
structure — freeing pending contexts, maps, mmaps, and the channel
context reference — into the kref release callback fastrpc_user_free(),
so that it runs only when the last reference is dropped, regardless of
whether that happens at device close or after the final in-flight
context completes.
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5278ccd357e0d7aeeb1e76c0f3e0e02894a9897c
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6e5c2be09f814377d7f1ce97370a5b7b3e02814
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d42679eef34dd590b694ce3b666c5e2ba10cd4bf
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df08fadcf0e5f3708365ec3b6d30b5aafd98bea1
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1e3a05efe5954d5bad01157d79429d39a67a7ae
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e85eb5feca8e254905ffa6c57a3c99c89a674a0f
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecea4967c2bff92c2fafbc59893f711b39f7b152
Added Reference

                  
                
              
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbe0947420eec18a84638d29468c2d563ce4e6a3
Added Affected

                  
                
              
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