CVE-2026-89744

device property: fix infinite loop in fwnode_for_each_child_node()

State
Published
Severity
8.4 High
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

device property: fix infinite loop in fwnode_for_each_child_node()

When iterate over children of a fwnode that has a secondary fwnode, fwnode_get_next_child_node() can enter an infinite loop if the secondary fwnode has more than one child.

Parent Child (Primary fwnode) FWa: {FWa1, FWa2, FWa3} (Secondary fwnode) FWb: {FWb1, FWb2}

In this case:

┌─> fwnode_get_next_child_node(FWa, FWa1) │ - fwnode_call_ptr_op(FWa, get_next_child_node, FWa1) returns FWa2 │ │ ... │ │ fwnode_get_next_child_node(FWa, FWa3) │ - fwnode_call_ptr_op(FWa, get_next_child_node, FWa3) returns NULL │ - fwnode_call_ptr_op(FWb, get_next_child_node, FWa3) returns FWb1 │ │ fwnode_get_next_child_node(FWa, FWb1) │ - fwnode_call_ptr_op(FWa, get_next_child_node, FWb1) returns FWa1 └────┘

This cause fwnode_for_each_child_node() to loop indefinitely, reapeatedly output {FWa1, FWa2, FWa3, FWb1, FWa1, ...}.

The root cause is that when the current child (FWb1) belongs to the secondary fwnode, calling get_next_child_node() on the parimary fwnode incorrectly returns the first child (FWa1) again instead of NULL.

Fix this by dynamically checking the parent fwnode of the current child before calling get_next_child_node(). This approach follows the pattern established in commit b5b41ab6b0c1 ("device property: Check fwnode->secondary in fwnode_graph_get_next_endpoint()").

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d1370a4f2aa0d811d419f6a6c6d257867d608956 to before 45a8fc4a12751833ed3868095d18200a85336760Affected
  • 5b51b2ba5207e07bcd7be0daab2f8eea405e005e to before 770c9bde93c8bb644f590743e9fbae3492a20f9eAffected
  • 272fcf19fda14ec603ce915aafc56cb3ea2fb38d to before 04004fa33730031392d987a9c1bbd8a0e1c4794bAffected
  • 3cfdf8d27b668d122a67a14bf2bcde1a7f10bbd6 to before f4ae79b5f00130aacaddb1f3eb2e5ef711fbf9e0Affected
  • 64dc258f9eec1d7204e9879cb836fe29967f1239 to before 20ed517e416df89448029293304c9e180c26cd4bAffected
  • 32752c3e81498b106da64a141379eb94f493fe6f to before ba69d892ff4e4a58cc12a2cae106b112db3306ccAffected
  • 2692c614f8f05929d692b3dbfd3faef1f00fbaf0 to before 9cb6b223ef02cb5c9777a852ae1ecf5796987eb6Affected
  • 2692c614f8f05929d692b3dbfd3faef1f00fbaf0 to before 1900692555826753adab8799a1a8d50bb1ee200cAffected
  • 43a621684ffa47fc008be98b15ff7becaf3a72faAffected
  • 5.10.253 to before 5.10.273Affected
  • 5.15.203 to before 5.15.224Affected
  • 6.1.167 to before 6.1.188Affected
  • 6.6.130 to before 6.6.157Affected
  • 6.12.78 to before 6.12.109Affected
  • 6.18.19 to before 6.18.50Affected
  • 6.19.9 to before 6.20Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.0Affected
  • before 7.0Not affected
  • 5.10.273 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.224 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.109 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.50 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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