CVE-2026-80886 is a vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Published on September 4, 2026
serial: msm: Disable DMA for kernel console UART
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: msm: Disable DMA for kernel console UART
At the moment, concurrent writes from userspace and the kernel to the
console can trigger a race condition that results in an infinite loop of
the same messages printed over and over again. This is most likely to
happen during system startup or shutdown when the init system starts/stops
a large number of system services that interact with various kernel code.
When userspace writes to the TTY device, the driver initiates an
asynchronous DMA transfer and releases the port lock. At the same moment,
the kernel printk path might grab the port lock and re-configure the UART
controller for PIO, without waiting for the DMA operation to complete. It
seems like this collision results in zero progress being reported for the
DMA engine, so the same text is printed to the console over and over again.
For the kernel console, we want a reliable output path that will be
functional even during crashes etc. So rather than implementing complex
code to synchronize the kernel console write routines with the userspace
DMA write routines, simply disable DMA for the console UART instance.
Similar checks exist in many other serial drivers, e.g. 8250_port.c,
imx.c, sh-sci.c etc.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-80886
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Affected Versions
Linux:- Version 3a878c430fd6eb4f8587f9ebd187f773bf85d1d6 and below f58e568dc308c8e13f7730c8de2da5ed514e540d is affected.
- Version 3a878c430fd6eb4f8587f9ebd187f773bf85d1d6 and below bb4296de5b538b575978c588cb3738ab8524d01a is affected.
- Version 3a878c430fd6eb4f8587f9ebd187f773bf85d1d6 and below 6acea62738ed4cae6746483026706a773b44dad7 is affected.
- Version 3a878c430fd6eb4f8587f9ebd187f773bf85d1d6 and below abc1926c88c189e5d698b91ed6890e09ab5c321d is affected.
- Version 3a878c430fd6eb4f8587f9ebd187f773bf85d1d6 and below 2727744ccb5ca59090451451ee94f530b1be04a5 is affected.
- Version 3a878c430fd6eb4f8587f9ebd187f773bf85d1d6 and below d354716245192de2d203f2b35f22ab8dc13595e2 is affected.
- Version 3a878c430fd6eb4f8587f9ebd187f773bf85d1d6 and below e3b42e326f4f30efcdc90bad5f5ba37e1cd91a47 is affected.
- Version 3a878c430fd6eb4f8587f9ebd187f773bf85d1d6 and below 22dd2777e6c180e1c945b00f6d18550979436324 is affected.
- Version 4.4 is affected.
- Before 4.4 is unaffected.
- Version 5.10.261, <= 5.10.* is unaffected.
- Version 5.15.212, <= 5.15.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.1.178, <= 6.1.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.6.145, <= 6.6.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.12.97, <= 6.12.* is unaffected.
- Version 6.18.40, <= 6.18.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.1.5, <= 7.1.* is unaffected.
- Version 7.2, <= * is unaffected.