CVE-2026-68222

media: msi2500: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
Updated: August 19, 2026 at 05:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: msi2500: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before calling start_streaming(). If start_streaming() returns an error without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(), vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued buffers leak. msi2500_start_streaming() had five error paths that all hit this trap and were further tangled by ret-overwriting between calls: - -ENODEV when the USB device was already disconnected - -ERESTARTSYS when mutex_lock_interruptible() was interrupted - msi2500_set_usb_adc() failure: ret was silently overwritten by the next call (msi2500_isoc_init), so the error was lost entirely - msi2500_isoc_init() failure: cleanup_queued_bufs was called, but the function then fell through to msi2500_ctrl_msg() and again masked the original error by overwriting ret - msi2500_ctrl_msg(CMD_START_STREAMING) failure: no cleanup at all, leaving isoc URBs submitted with no way for the driver to consume them Consolidate the error paths into a small goto chain. Every failure now stops the function, drains the queued-buffer list, and returns the real error code. The ctrl_msg failure path also rolls back the preceding msi2500_isoc_init() via msi2500_isoc_cleanup() before unlocking and draining. The cleanup helper takes a vb2_buffer_state argument so that the start_streaming error paths can pass VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED (as expected by userspace on start_streaming failure) while stop_streaming keeps its existing VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR semantics. This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo: Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

3.12 ≤ v < 5.10.2653.12 ≤ v < 5.15.2163.12 ≤ v < 6.1.1833.12 ≤ v < 6.12.1013.12 ≤ v < 6.18.423.12 ≤ v < 6.6.1483.12 ≤ v < 7.1.63.12 ≤ v < 7.23.12977e444f59ad16eedf66acae4f357011c74da291
Vendor states this is fixed in 1d58229b330b7f67fbfa07e0f2a8a51fbeafaa9a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 264b5380c4f8aa92dbc2983ecd2b627f1d5e0061 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2d10eedb786a13f91d76e11320fabb0bf712519f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2de14ddb4fea04ca616403a6ba81c5e8099e9b9e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3673cb0a5711e910074d69201da9e1535c03f97a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7201c17786a498497bca57752883b90914d405ac (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bab9d5a67d4db96ae8c187b92b37979911302a10 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c74b680704baecea4620c0774de473069e0bc4e8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.101 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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