CVE-2026-45885

power: supply: cpcap-battery: 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: cpcap-battery: 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
  • 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 to before c549dd3de4b3f6e726d1b8386d40ccf7d3abdbe4Affected
  • 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 to before 3ff75cba1c98349a23a8f9333981deba1972cc11Affected
  • 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 to before 2ce2334be155bd8bad6377e99984246ce4dbd08cAffected
  • 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 to before cbb9b07f88a9ef6518934c41eb3e8cf840d657d5Affected
  • 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 to before f3fbe309c9bfe1aac1e2b26543e9dc4829f3275aAffected
  • 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 to before 2841bbb5a35c4449c0a0458e8e476b2a62f95147Affected
  • 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 to before e261be6f18929f2397cd54cd583a2df624c129c1Affected
  • 874b2adbed1253a11549cb9b7b912ab65fea9cf2 to before 642f33e34b969eedec334738fd5df95d2dc42742Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.13Affected
  • before 4.13Not 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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