CVE-2026-64603

platform/x86: intel-hid: Protect ACPI notify handler against recursion

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 6, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

platform/x86: intel-hid: Protect ACPI notify handler against recursion

Since commit e2ffcda16290 ("ACPI: OSL: Allow Notify () handlers to run on all CPUs") ACPI notify handlers like the intel-hid notify_handler() may run on multiple CPU cores racing with themselves.

On convertibles and detachables (matched by DMI chassis-type 31 and 32 in dmi_auto_add_switch[]) the SW_TABLET_MODE input device is registered lazily from notify_handler() on the first tablet-mode event, via intel_hid_switches_setup(). When two such events race on different CPUs both can pass the !priv->switches check and register the priv->switches input device twice, resulting in a duplicate sysfs entry and a subsequent NULL pointer dereference.

This is the same class of bug fixed by commit e075c3b13a0a ("platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Protect ACPI notify handler against recursion") for the sibling intel-vbtn driver.

Protect intel-hid notify_handler() from racing with itself with a mutex to fix this.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e2ffcda1629012a2c1a3706432bc45fdc899a584 to before a6402808e552e44e9c26a9fe8395ac11703d5800Affected
  • e2ffcda1629012a2c1a3706432bc45fdc899a584 to before 86df6499dfd232fbc1c82c0d6eb9322ca67b8cd0Affected
  • e2ffcda1629012a2c1a3706432bc45fdc899a584 to before eace3b3e729d5ba11794d69acfafb58a7950217cAffected
  • e2ffcda1629012a2c1a3706432bc45fdc899a584 to before c085d82613d5618814b84406c8b2d64f1bc305e7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.96 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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