CVE-2026-72346

platform/x86: bitland-mifs-wmi: Fix NULL pointer dereference during suspend/resume

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

platform/x86: bitland-mifs-wmi: Fix NULL pointer dereference during suspend/resume

The driver registers two distinct WMI devices: a control device (BITLAND_WMI_CONTROL) and an event device (BITLAND_WMI_EVENT). During the probe phase, the event device handling path returns early before initializing the platform profile device (data->pp_dev), leaving it NULL.

However, the PM sleep operations are registered globally for the WMI driver and are triggered for both devices. When entering suspend, the event device invokes bitland_mifs_wmi_suspend(), which passes the uninitialized data->pp_dev (NULL) into laptop_profile_get(). This leads to a NULL pointer dereference inside dev_get_drvdata(), causing a kernel Oops and halting the suspend sequence.

Fix this by adding a validity check for data->pp_dev in both the suspend and resume callbacks, safely skipping profile operations for the event device.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • dc1ec4fa86b2b8bba2b6122f2b4420217b5bae9e to before 6f2cb20d8e286218d51754f06ee219d8ce754b18Affected
  • dc1ec4fa86b2b8bba2b6122f2b4420217b5bae9e to before d3666875c75eb1bc8090343fa0d6fc8fb7924356Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.1Affected
  • before 7.1Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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