CVE-2026-45916

power: supply: sbs-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: sbs-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. Keep the old behavior of just printing a warning in case of any failures during the IRQ request and finishing the probe successfully.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 to before ca7dd71773e4e050b0fb98768b7eae60f8d1f38bAffected
  • d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 to before f1f472b14ad56104ba228b8fbec60d5b21829913Affected
  • d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 to before 8010b745b436c3e1ca5dd960aa29fa3e0f6d8841Affected
  • d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 to before 2078830c32d1e49ac942c6f8c21f35c806ae5e94Affected
  • d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 to before 82d3eb97a976c9d56bb92b241397610e57a9c629Affected
  • d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 to before 861dda7a9074c0ff67788928165ae39d7f647491Affected
  • d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 to before 14d4dee5d8fb361bfff275832087254beab66d72Affected
  • d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 to before 8d59cf3887fbabacef53bfba473e33e8a8d9d07bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.9Affected
  • before 4.9Not 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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