7.8

CVE-2026-68330

net: airoha: Fix DMA direction for NPU mailbox buffer

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

net: airoha: Fix DMA direction for NPU mailbox buffer

airoha_npu_send_msg() always maps the mailbox buffer with DMA_TO_DEVICE,
but some callers expect the NPU to write response data back into the
same buffer:

- airoha_npu_wlan_msg_get() (NPU_OP_GET): NPU writes response into
  the buffer, then the caller reads it via memcpy()
- airoha_npu_ppe_stats_setup() (NPU_OP_SET): NPU writes back
  npu_stats_addr field in the response

On non-cache-coherent architectures like EN7581 (Cortex-A53 without
hardware cache coherency for NPU DMA), DMA_TO_DEVICE unmap is a no-op
— it does not invalidate the CPU cache. If the NPU-written cache line
is still present in the CPU cache when the caller reads the buffer,
the CPU observes stale data instead of the NPU response.

This is a timing-sensitive bug: small mailbox buffers (~24 bytes)
typically fit in a single cache line and may survive in the cache
until the caller reads them, producing silent data corruption rather
than a crash. The bug is more likely to trigger when the caller reads
the response immediately after dma_unmap_single() without intervening
cache-evicting operations.

Fix by using DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL for both map and unmap, which ensures
dma_unmap_single() invalidates the CPU cache on non-coherent systems.
The mailbox buffers are small so there is no performance concern.
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HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version c52918744ee1e49cea86622a2633b9782446428f
Version < 76fc5604308a109bf5838c2a0a0eb3ac6819f1ea
Status affected
Version c52918744ee1e49cea86622a2633b9782446428f
Version < 4c4d866a64f36718cbcdf20add372a599dd44311
Status affected
Version c52918744ee1e49cea86622a2633b9782446428f
Version < 6f884eb87a79e0c482baef2ad96c96b81d024235
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 6.16
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 6.16
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.42
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.1.*
Version 7.1.6
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.2
Status unaffected
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.16% 0.058
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76fc5604308a109bf5838c2a0a0eb3ac6819f1ea
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c4d866a64f36718cbcdf20add372a599dd44311
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f884eb87a79e0c482baef2ad96c96b81d024235