published December 16, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: multiq3: sanitize config options in multiq3_attach()
Syzbot identified an issue [1] in multiq3_attach() that induces a
task timeout due to open() or COMEDI_DEVCONFIG ioctl operations,
specifically, in the case of multiq3 driver.
This problem arose when syzkaller managed to craft weird configuration
options used to specify the number of channels in encoder subdevice.
If a particularly great number is passed to s->n_chan in
multiq3_attach() via it->options[2], then multiple calls to
multiq3_encoder_reset() at the end of driver-specific attach() method
will be running for minutes, thus blocking tasks and affected devices
as well.
While this issue is most likely not too dangerous for real-life
devices, it still makes sense to sanitize configuration inputs. Enable
a sensible limit on the number of encoder chips (4 chips max, each
with 2 channels) to stop this behaviour from manifesting.
[1] Syzbot crash:
INFO: task syz.2.19:6067 blocked for more than 143 seconds.
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5254 [inline]
__schedule+0x17c4/0x4d60 kernel/sched/core.c:6862
__schedule_loop kernel/sched/core.c:6944 [inline]
schedule+0x165/0x360 kernel/sched/core.c:6959
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x13/0x30 kernel/sched/core.c:7016
__mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:676 [inline]
__mutex_lock+0x7e6/0x1350 kernel/locking/mutex.c:760
comedi_open+0xc0/0x590 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2868
chrdev_open+0x4cc/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:414
do_dentry_open+0x953/0x13f0 fs/open.c:965
vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1097
...