Security Advisory

CVE-2026-31436

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-04-22 13:53:35
Last updated 2026-05-11 22:08:40
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: fix possible wrong descriptor completion in llist_abort_desc() At the end of this function, d is the traversal cursor of flist, but the code completes found instead. This can lead to issues such as NULL pointer dereferences, double completion, or descriptor leaks. Fix this by completing d instead of found in the final list_for_each_entry_safe() loop.