CVE-2026-31749

comedi: ni_atmio16d: Fix invalid clean-up after failed attach

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 1, 2026
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Mar 9, 2026

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Description

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

comedi: ni_atmio16d: Fix invalid clean-up after failed attach

If the driver's COMEDI "attach" handler function (`atmio16d_attach()`) returns an error, the COMEDI core will call the driver's "detach" handler function (`atmio16d_detach()`) to clean up. This calls `reset_atmio16d()` unconditionally, but depending on where the error occurred in the attach handler, the device may not have been sufficiently initialized to call `reset_atmio16d()`. It uses `dev->iobase` as the I/O port base address and `dev->private` as the pointer to the COMEDI device's private data structure. `dev->iobase` may still be set to its initial value of 0, which would result in undesired writes to low I/O port addresses. `dev->private` may still be `NULL`, which would result in null pointer dereferences.

Fix `atmio16d_detach()` by checking that `dev->private` is valid (non-null) before calling `reset_atmio16d()`. This implies that `dev->iobase` was set correctly since that is set up before `dev->private`.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2323b276308a5da5774b778f39c7fd94b2a3022a to before a01dd339ea6ac58b0967a50085622a6017351140Affected
  • 2323b276308a5da5774b778f39c7fd94b2a3022a to before 933a2d6a95f9bfb203e562c9be1dd990c735535cAffected
  • 2323b276308a5da5774b778f39c7fd94b2a3022a to before 5d8d88c8c0eec230de8f1f60e0920a4337939a88Affected
  • 2323b276308a5da5774b778f39c7fd94b2a3022a to before f517646e008fe99ca1800601cd011b110f8684aeAffected
  • 2323b276308a5da5774b778f39c7fd94b2a3022a to before 3848ae00b1642e2c98ff8cbfd2d3b38c6f53b5c3Affected
  • 2323b276308a5da5774b778f39c7fd94b2a3022a to before 43c68a2c7cc35b7c2a83c285cb4ad3d472b8caa2Affected
  • 2323b276308a5da5774b778f39c7fd94b2a3022a to before d07d97ca4f7fac467cdcf4a012690853958b7e89Affected
  • 2323b276308a5da5774b778f39c7fd94b2a3022a to before 101ab946b79ad83b36d5cfd47de587492a80acf0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.30Affected
  • before 2.6.30Not affected
  • 5.10.253 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.203 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.168 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.134 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.81 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.22 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.12 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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