# CVE-2026-31602: ALSA: ctxfi: Limit PTP to a single page

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-24 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ctxfi: Limit PTP to a single page Commit 391e69143d0a increased CT_PTP_NUM from 1 to 4 to support 256 playback streams, but the additional pages are not used by the card correctly. The CT20K2 hardware already has multiple VMEM_PTPAL registers, but using them separately would require refactoring the entire virtual memory allocation logic. ct_vm_map() always uses PTEs in vm->ptp[0].area regardless of CT_PTP_NUM. On AMD64 systems, a single PTP covers 512 PTEs (2M). When aggregate memory allocations exceed this limit, ct_vm_map() tries to access beyond the allocated space and causes a page fault: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffd4ae8a10a000 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI RIP: 0010:ct_vm_map+0x17c/0x280 [snd_ctxfi] Call Trace: atc_pcm_playback_prepare+0x225/0x3b0 ct_pcm_playback_prepare+0x38/0x60 snd_pcm_do_prepare+0x2f/0x50 snd_pcm_action_single+0x36/0x90 snd_pcm_action_nonatomic+0xbf/0xd0 snd_pcm_ioctl+0x28/0x40 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x81/0x610 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Revert CT_PTP_NUM to 1. The 256 SRC_RESOURCE_NUM and playback_count remain unchanged.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5908160e17cb56e1f61fbaee08adc21083f4933
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de8016fb0904d68ac886e375069535996baa42ee
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b4331c08c0b385598b4d8ccd71e93ab3f4b2578
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/452894005b4abe141b11fe01e7bfe152e6d3860f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/365c36e1a126c6aa1aecedd3a351bcabc66f0c29
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fd0685d7fef68c2d8a04876bcf9eaa0724ad6a5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f5ecd13cce8c2f8fa5a84c9aab65997142577e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad9011a795407093dcf507f6e5da1828987b4b47
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9418da50d9e5c496c22fe392e4ad74c038a94eb

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