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Medium [CVE-2026-74655] fix TX DMA buffer flush

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-74655 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat package: kernel.

CVE-2026-74655 Published Aug 22, 2026Updated by vendor Aug 22, 2026
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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: qcom-geni: fix TX DMA buffer flush When transmit flushing a qcom-geni UART during an ongoing TX DMA, the UART gets stuck infinitely repeating corrupted TX DMA frames.

The DMA-mode uart_ops does not provide a flush_buffer callback, so an in-flight transfer can complete after serial core has reset the transmit kfifo, underflowing its length and resubmitting page-sized transfers indefinitely. Add one that stops the transfer and clears tx_remaining and tx_queued.

The stop path was also broken: it unmapped the buffer while the serial engine could still read it, and never reset the TX DMA state machine. Cancel the main sequencer command first, then reset the state machine and wait for it before unmapping.

Drop the early return so a pending mapping is also cleaned up when the main command is inactive. The bug can be triggered from userspace with a large write immediately followed by TCOFLUSH.

A following tcdrain will hang forever. The bug was reproduced and this fix was validated on Arduino Uno Q (QRB2210) using /dev/ttyHS1.

Specifically, a vulnerability exists in the `qcom-geni` Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART) driver's transmit Direct Memory Access (DMA) buffer flush mechanism.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat package: kernel.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.

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Fixed versions

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Mitigation

The source record does not include mitigation steps. That is not a statement that no fix exists — read the vendor advisory below for the authoritative guidance.

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