CVE-2026-23131

platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kobject warnings for empty attribute names

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 14, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

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

platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix kobject warnings for empty attribute names

The hp-bioscfg driver attempts to register kobjects with empty names when the HP BIOS returns attributes with empty name strings. This causes multiple kernel warnings:

kobject: (00000000135fb5e6): attempted to be registered with empty name! WARNING: CPU: 14 PID: 3336 at lib/kobject.c:219 kobject_add_internal+0x2eb/0x310

Add validation in hp_init_bios_buffer_attribute() to check if the attribute name is empty after parsing it from the WMI buffer. If empty, log a debug message and skip registration of that attribute, allowing the module to continue processing other valid attributes.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a34fc329b1895fc8a6eb12099adc47009421ba6a to before 29917c80aa96a25cbcf5876fd774a1cfd72b01a9Affected
  • a34fc329b1895fc8a6eb12099adc47009421ba6a to before 6476be59b7162b891b7bddbd0c2924d87379ef6cAffected
  • a34fc329b1895fc8a6eb12099adc47009421ba6a to before 800b2767905d6b409b8bbe357121970f0b489a89Affected
  • a34fc329b1895fc8a6eb12099adc47009421ba6a to before fdee1b09721605f532352628d0a24623e7062efbAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.122 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.68 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.8 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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