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CVE-2026-72146 (GCVE-0-2026-72146)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:53 – Updated: 2026-08-19 16:36
VLAI
Title
dmaengine: sh: rz-dmac: Move interrupt request after everything is set up
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: sh: rz-dmac: Move interrupt request after everything is set up Once the interrupt is requested, the interrupt handler may run immediately. Since the IRQ handler can access channel->ch_base, which is initialized only after requesting the IRQ, this may lead to invalid memory access. Likewise, the IRQ thread may access uninitialized data (the ld_free, ld_queue, and ld_active lists), which may also lead to issues. Request the interrupts only after everything is set up. To keep the error path simpler, use dmam_alloc_coherent() instead of dma_alloc_coherent().
Severity
8.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5000d37042a61ca556fde2782ca40dbfa802ea16 , < d24d53323e817d79a4bd111bd10b34dbc96e64a8 (git)
Affected: 5000d37042a61ca556fde2782ca40dbfa802ea16 , < 0e0c5b3cf374ebf3c589741751e1fbc67f53ec2f (git)
Affected: 5000d37042a61ca556fde2782ca40dbfa802ea16 , < 5b12de6229d662864ee22c11d4876652b40120f0 (git)
Affected: 5000d37042a61ca556fde2782ca40dbfa802ea16 , < 2a4d9e2234c3f817bb0ddbc8680d09ce9be84f93 (git)
Affected: 5000d37042a61ca556fde2782ca40dbfa802ea16 , < ec9f66c91bffdb69d309bae6dfb387562db7ebc8 (git)
Affected: 5000d37042a61ca556fde2782ca40dbfa802ea16 , < 07ae600bd353b22f31a8f1007269744fafc7f123 (git)
Affected: 5000d37042a61ca556fde2782ca40dbfa802ea16 , < 731712403ddb39d1a76a11abf339a0615bc85de7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.216 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.183 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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