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media: chips-media: wave5: Defer job_finish() only when a DEC_PIC was queued

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: chips-media: wave5: Defer job_finish() only when a DEC_PIC was queued Decoder instances sharing a VPU also share one v4l2_m2m job slot, released when the running context calls v4l2_m2m_job_finish(). While draining, device_run() defers job_finish() once EOS is sent (sent_eos), expecting a later finish_decode() (from a DEC_PIC completion IRQ) to release the slot. But the m2m core checks job_ready() only when a job is queued, not when it is dispatched. A job queued while draining can run after finish_decode() has already moved the instance to STOP and sent EOS. device_run() then runs in STOP, issues no DEC_PIC, yet still skips job_finish() - so no IRQ, no finish_decode(), and the shared slot is leaked, stalling every instance. With several v4l2h264dec instances in parallel, GStreamer hangs at EOS. Track whether the run actually queued a DEC_PIC (cmd_issued) and defer job_finish() only then. Otherwise finish the job immediately

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CVE-2026-89867

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-89867

Linux

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  {
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "a176ac5e701f1ba30843c0d7e0663a761bf9a61a",
        "lessThan": "63d758d2f9dba836d5ae597d317cde522e817cf9",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "a176ac5e701f1ba30843c0d7e0663a761bf9a61a",
        "lessThan": "b694ba0a5526a69f78a6924982b1553154ccfd73",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu-dec.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "7.0"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "7.0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.2.5",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.3",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu-dec.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]
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