UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-68217
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: pwc: Drain fill_buf on start_streaming() failure pwc_isoc_init() submits its isochr
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: pwc: Drain fill_buf on start_streaming() failure
pwc_isoc_init() submits its isochronous URBs with
usb_submit_urb(.., GFP_KERNEL) in a loop. After the first URB is
submitted, its completion handler pwc_isoc_handler() can run on another
CPU before the loop finishes:
start_streaming()
pwc_isoc_init()
usb_submit_urb(urbs[0], GFP_KERNEL)
pwc_isoc_handler(urbs[0])
pdev->fill_buf =
pwc_get_next_fill_buf(pdev)
usb_submit_urb(urbs[i>0], ..) -> fails
pwc_isoc_cleanup(pdev) /* kills URBs */
return ret;
pwc_cleanup_queued_bufs(pdev, VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED)
pwc_get_next_fill_buf() detaches a buffer from pdev->queued_bufs and
stores it in pdev->fill_buf. The error path in start_streaming() only
drains pdev->queued_bufs, so the buffer parked in pdev->fill_buf is
leaked. vb2_start_streaming() then triggers
WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count).
stop_streaming() already handles this since commit 80b0963e1698
("[media] pwc: fix WARN_ON"), which added the fill_buf drain in the
teardown path but not in the start_streaming() error path. Mirror that
handling on failure so start_streaming() returns with no buffer owned
by the driver.
Issue identified by automated review of the INV-003 series at
https://sashiko.dev/
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d4812668b03f823b5044789d6aa77fe56b42587
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/906e410dcffbbd99fb4081abab817a830033aa28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9afd605dcd96c7a45f338eded1de16679b30e1df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a56e7641e09bd80b976e944ae759109b86fd5b38
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acc789b2173070638cad89c2b61d33ed338be0dd
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-08-10 via NVD.
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