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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2026· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2026-31436

CVE-2026-31436

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.

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