CVE-2026-45867

power: supply: act8945a: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
May 27, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

power: supply: act8945a: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_` variant for allocating/registering the `power_supply` handle, means that the `power_supply` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `power_supply` handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding unregistration of the IRQ handler has run.

This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `power_supply_changed()` with a freed `power_supply` handle. Which usually crashes the system or otherwise silently corrupts the memory...

Note that there is a similar situation which can also happen during `probe()`; the possibility of an interrupt firing _before_ registering the `power_supply` handle. This would then lead to the nasty situation of using the `power_supply` handle *uninitialized* in `power_supply_changed()`.

Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the registration of the `power_supply` handle.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a09209acd6a808794bdd7866af3678d1fd1d90e7 to before f2a0777b1e5a3cee1712c4d3e9095c0df8fc8cb3Affected
  • a09209acd6a808794bdd7866af3678d1fd1d90e7 to before 0768e8525a46df103647ca5059b32320d7fd17e4Affected
  • a09209acd6a808794bdd7866af3678d1fd1d90e7 to before d023ef9f748b2090f7a9dbdd5c622b6ad99088eaAffected
  • a09209acd6a808794bdd7866af3678d1fd1d90e7 to before 697bb5dc0cb4791e244f3970b067bc1ef33be9d9Affected
  • a09209acd6a808794bdd7866af3678d1fd1d90e7 to before 76a42ba547a9b2e2337894f67a4d9247445007d5Affected
  • a09209acd6a808794bdd7866af3678d1fd1d90e7 to before f27eb76def5c07e4d7cc468b40741f19dafc83ceAffected
  • a09209acd6a808794bdd7866af3678d1fd1d90e7 to before 83c1bd466c514cb24ca6ef347c5aac76a13c4e1eAffected
  • a09209acd6a808794bdd7866af3678d1fd1d90e7 to before 3291c51d4684d048dd2eb91b5b65fcfdaf72141fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.9Affected
  • before 4.9Not affected
  • 5.10.252 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.202 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.165 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.128 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.75 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.14 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.4 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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