CVE-2025-71188

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 ...

medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1
Published: Jan 31, 2026
Modified: Jun 2, 2026
Vendor: Linux
Product: Linux Kernel
Versions: 4.3,6.19

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.

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