Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2026· Updated Feb 9, 2026
dmaengine: lpc18xx-dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation
CVE-2025-71188
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: lpc18xx-dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation
Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA mux platform device during route allocation.
Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.3
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e47d80f6720f0224efd19bcf081d39637569c10mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d396ebfb3049a2b5fac51d2c967db5114b685e8mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/499ddae78c4baa9b94df76b2d2eb6b150d15377fmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/992eb8055a6e5dbb808672d20d68e60d5a89b12bmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fba97baa520c9446df51a64708daf27c5a7ed32mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/adef147a8d8c3d767abf88ad2c381ffab2993086mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4d63059dee7e7cae0c4d9a532ed558bc90efb55mitre
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