CVE-2026-64168: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: sprd: fix error pointer deref after DMA setup failure The driver falls back to PIO mode if DMA setup fails during probe. Make sure to check the dma.enabled flag before trying to release the DMA channels also on late probe errors to avoid dereferencing an error pointer (or attempting to release a channel a second time). This issue was flagged by Sashiko when reviewing a devres allocation conversion patch.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.1, before 5.10.258 (fixed in 5.10.258); from 5.11, before 5.15.209 (fixed in 5.15.209); from 5.16, before 6.1.175 (fixed in 6.1.175); from 6.2, before 6.6.142 (fixed in 6.6.142); from 6.7, before 6.12.92 (fixed in 6.12.92); from 6.13, before 6.18.34 (fixed in 6.18.34); …

Published 2026-07-19. Last modified 2026-08-13.