CVE-2026-64498

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: buffer: hw-consumer: free scan_mask on buffer release

The scan_mask lifetime changed in commit 9a2e1233d38c ("iio: buffer: hw-consumer: remove redundant scan_mask flexible array").

Before that change, the scan mask storage was embedded in struct hw_consumer_buffer, so iio_hw_buf_release() could free the whole allocation with a single kfree(hw_buf).

That commit moved the scan mask to a separate bitmap_zalloc() allocation stored in buffer.scan_mask, but left iio_hw_buf_release() unchanged.

Free the scan mask in iio_hw_buf_release() before freeing the buffer wrapper.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux9a2e1233d38c460ad07f36901931f3674a32d1ed < fb8e18f8ca724bd4de4643cad5b7c7230b9a5a71affected
LinuxLinux9a2e1233d38c460ad07f36901931f3674a32d1ed < 6325d6e2204327965b849c0a16efb6ac9202e5a8affected
LinuxLinux7.1affected
LinuxLinux0 < 7.1unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.4 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2-rc1 <= *unaffected

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