CVE-2026-45902

power: supply: bq256xx: 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: bq256xx: 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
  • 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 to before 81d3688c9a2158329391e08f2d0b8ba204216044Affected
  • 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 to before 74b5a88318db97d51bb40f774736553c2acd1514Affected
  • 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 to before cb5c743936edcebc51880eeb6bf04979b5c9438bAffected
  • 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 to before 83c27fdd696ac13d023ef7a0345301be93209c53Affected
  • 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 to before 4b6fb0b6124f558131e502e3ffd03e6583b3ace6Affected
  • 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 to before 8796910131a32ff29275052df768ef022929a394Affected
  • 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 to before 8005843369723d9c8975b7c4202d1b85d6125302Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not 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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