Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 22, 2026· Updated Apr 27, 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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