CVE-2026-45879
power: supply: bq25980: 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: bq25980: 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
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86f93dfb23f5bf4f285c4256a7e909d222f7de56
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16875e3b7bc9e59bfa0acaf1e43f275a6f42a30f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0560a4b09c92e2ecaa883965cf6f9ca51c158ff9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de95d29d847c6217b7d5845e24a71a4aee7b359
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aeaf03c17260415c2fdd55992f9ad4188d5455a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03d1e4ee4e6aa6d2966e883e4ca0e5be73bf1b7c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abea607ff2f62f4c0a5fb29f7fbdaaab163276a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f0b1cb41906e86b64bf69f5ededb83b0d757c27
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