CVE-2026-45938

power: supply: pm8916_lbc: 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_lbc: 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
  • f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13 to before dbe579e620ef0f53db490ec79a8566e4ea8918acAffected
  • f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13 to before 08e674e9862a2db46fb234eb7c5442455ece0131Affected
  • f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13 to before d7d31fc99d248d5f47588f50dce5c7599c991c6aAffected
  • f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13 to before b7508129978ae1e2ed9b0410396abc05def9c4ebAffected
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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