CVE-2026-89449

CVE-2026-89449

published September 12, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

iommu: Fix dev_iommu memory leak when device_add fails in iommu_mock_device_add

iommu_mock_device_add() first calls iommu_fwspec_init(), which on

success allocates both dev->iommu (via dev_iommu_get()) and

dev->iommu->fwspec. If the subsequent device_add(dev) call fails,

the error path only calls iommu_fwspec_free(dev), which frees

fwspec but leaves dev->iommu still allocated.

This triggers the following kmemleak report when fuzzing with Syzkaller:

BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff888011e0a200 (size 192):

comm "syz.1.1695", pid 24885, jiffies 4295222527

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de .............N..

ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................

backtrace (crc 25df5bb3):

kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]

slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4575 [inline]

slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4899 [inline]

__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x47a/0x710 mm/slub.c:5415

kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]

kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]

dev_iommu_get+0x10c/0x1a0 drivers/iommu/iommu.c:408

iommu_fwspec_init+0x288/0x4d0 drivers/iommu/iommu.c:3087

iommu_mock_device_add+0x46/0xb0 drivers/iommu/iommu.c:385

mock_dev_create drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c:1025 [inline]

iommufd_test_mock_domain drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c:1066 [inline]

iommufd_test+0x2f8a/0x6190 drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c:2072

iommufd_fops_ioctl+0x367/0x540 drivers/iommu/iommufd/main.c:533

vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]

__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]

__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]

__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x116/0x800 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fix this by calling dev_iommu_free(dev) instead of iommu_fwspec_free(dev)

in the device_add() failure path. dev_iommu_free() frees both fwspec

and the outer dev_iommu struct and clears dev->iommu.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00206 · 10.2th percentile
Published
2026-09-12T00:19Z
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 03:23Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 11 SEP 19:43Z
    iommu: Fix dev_iommu memory leak when device_add fails in iommu_mock_device_add
    cvelistv5