CVE-2026-45946

power: supply: ab8500: 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: ab8500: 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()`.

Commit 1c1f13a006ed ("power: supply: ab8500: Move to componentized binding") introduced this issue during a refactorization. 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
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to before 43cbb78ee047b9b12d096d40e3be265969d4c1f8Affected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to before 551672981fe227122258a25a385a05f5c0746ad6Affected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to before f50433f2603def08b21a4bf2fd238687fb5cbde9Affected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to before 847eeb6c0efcd76c7def73857cf798a4fcd8f79bAffected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to before 709db4b476e254579d9c48ec34d397a41ca0c407Affected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to before 46dbda27b028d78087667e8280966b99cec015caAffected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to before c4af8a98bb52825a5331ae1d0604c0ea6956ba4bAffected
  • 341db343768bc44f3512facc464021730d64071cAffected
  • 5.13.4 to before 5.14Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not 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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