CVE-2026-80563

gpio: sloppy-logic-analyzer: fix use-after-free via debugfs trigger on unbind

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 26, 2026
Updated
Aug 26, 2026
Reserved
Aug 26, 2026

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Description

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

gpio: sloppy-logic-analyzer: fix use-after-free via debugfs trigger on unbind

The "trigger" debugfs file has a hand-rolled ->write handler (trigger_write()) that dereferences the per-device gpio_la_poll_priv. The file is created with debugfs_create_file_unsafe(), and the handler never takes a debugfs reference. Nothing keeps the object alive while the handler runs.

priv is allocated with devm_kzalloc(). devres frees it when the platform device is unbound. debugfs_create_file_unsafe() installs no full_proxy wrapper, so debugfs_remove_recursive() in gpio_la_poll_remove() does not wait for an in-flight trigger_write(). The blob_lock taken there does not help, because trigger_write() never takes it. A write that races an unbind therefore writes into freed memory:

trigger_write() gpio_la_poll_remove() priv = m->private buf = memdup_user() [may sleep] mutex_lock(&priv->blob_lock) debugfs_remove_recursive() [no wait] mutex_unlock(&priv->blob_lock) (remove returns; devres frees priv) priv->trig_data = buf <-- use-after-free write priv->trig_len = count

The race is reachable by root via /sys/bus/platform/drivers/gpio-sloppy-logic-analyzer/unbind.

Create "trigger" with debugfs_create_file() instead. Its full_proxy wrapper makes debugfs_remove_recursive() drain any in-flight ->write before it returns.

The use-after-free is confirmed under KASAN with a minimal reproducer of the same debugfs_create_file_unsafe() plus devm_kzalloc() pattern (available on request); it produces a slab-use-after-free write in the handler.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7828b7bbbf2074dd7dd14d87f50bc5ce9036d692 to before 49a1ebb1ef2c8ada300c174b65273810abb4e326Affected
  • 7828b7bbbf2074dd7dd14d87f50bc5ce9036d692 to before 23e9f32c0c7d2043e39655cff5ee3ddf29a43f80Affected
  • 7828b7bbbf2074dd7dd14d87f50bc5ce9036d692 to before 24bef4918f6ab806260476e2f93d8f791fd17449Affected
  • 7828b7bbbf2074dd7dd14d87f50bc5ce9036d692 to before 44f3468a0aef1aabdad551898ab7cfa2a9d20e99Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.11Affected
  • before 6.11Not affected
  • 6.12.105 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.46 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.10 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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