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

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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

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5069185fc18e810715a91d80fcd075e03add600c to before 86f93dfb23f5bf4f285c4256a7e909d222f7de56Affected
  • 5069185fc18e810715a91d80fcd075e03add600c to before 16875e3b7bc9e59bfa0acaf1e43f275a6f42a30fAffected
  • 5069185fc18e810715a91d80fcd075e03add600c to before 0560a4b09c92e2ecaa883965cf6f9ca51c158ff9Affected
  • 5069185fc18e810715a91d80fcd075e03add600c to before 0de95d29d847c6217b7d5845e24a71a4aee7b359Affected
  • 5069185fc18e810715a91d80fcd075e03add600c to before 4aeaf03c17260415c2fdd55992f9ad4188d5455aAffected
  • 5069185fc18e810715a91d80fcd075e03add600c to before 03d1e4ee4e6aa6d2966e883e4ca0e5be73bf1b7cAffected
  • 5069185fc18e810715a91d80fcd075e03add600c to before abea607ff2f62f4c0a5fb29f7fbdaaab163276a4Affected
  • 5069185fc18e810715a91d80fcd075e03add600c to before 5f0b1cb41906e86b64bf69f5ededb83b0d757c27Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.10Affected
  • before 5.10Not 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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