CVE-2026-68209
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
10/08/2026
Last modified:
19/08/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
media: sun4i-csi: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure<br />
<br />
The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before<br />
calling start_streaming(). If start_streaming() returns an error<br />
without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(),<br />
vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued<br />
buffers leak.<br />
<br />
sun4i_csi_start_streaming() returned -EINVAL when no matching CSI<br />
format could be found, before any setup (scratch buffer allocation,<br />
pipeline start) had been performed. The remaining error paths already<br />
converge on the err_clear_dma_queue label, which calls<br />
return_all_buffers(..., VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED) under csi->qlock. Jump<br />
to that label directly: the intermediate err_disable_device /<br />
err_disable_pipeline / err_free_scratch_buffer labels are skipped,<br />
which is correct because nothing they would undo has happened yet.<br />
<br />
This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo:<br />
Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").
Impact
Base Score 3.x
7.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29fce7bcb3b959f6d4fdcdff7d26330152fdf98d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c0bd793b0083fd4639ba7f60d1e7db8c8ac459a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4872161e6fbe4e1783daea8bff79caddfae0fb82
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/668face37fdb6b6900645dc8777195498541c9a7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c2c30e282745a83d332c3cf92d1c0bcc491ac54
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8abecc638a7feb20b78fabd563b05e30c071331
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5184b3f0e9d4cc47059ba1138c9a73d43d2493f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbba3e260a62810a717b4442a3bb96d0ec0f6309


