CVE-2026-45882

power: supply: pm8916_bms_vm: 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: pm8916_bms_vm: 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
  • 098bce1838e0549228c8d426e5de72ec5594b5c4 to before b69bb88e20c6f8e998dff3e13a316207f49d3fa2Affected
  • 098bce1838e0549228c8d426e5de72ec5594b5c4 to before a8b7117ae3a791c6a328674d05a06cd45d8241bdAffected
  • 098bce1838e0549228c8d426e5de72ec5594b5c4 to before 17db6b3abd823c9fba3f3413c4f0f432d99d49dcAffected
  • 098bce1838e0549228c8d426e5de72ec5594b5c4 to before 62914959b35e9a1e29cc0f64cb8cfc5075a5366fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not 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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