CVE-2026-93081
firmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 30, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 17, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes
scmi_child_dev_find() drops the reference returned by device_find_child() before returning the scmi_device pointer. A concurrent unregister can then release the device while the destroy path is still using the returned pointer.
Make the lookup helper return the device_find_child() reference and keep it until scmi_device_destroy() has finished unregistering the child.
Also split device_unregister() in __scmi_device_destroy() so the SCMI bus ID is not made reusable until after device_del() has removed the old scmi_dev.N name from sysfs. This avoids a new SCMI device reusing the same ID while the old device is still registered.
The final device release callback is also a possible cleanup path when SCMI children are deleted by driver core recursion rather than __scmi_device_destroy(). Release the SCMI bus ID from a common helper used by destroy, register-failure and final-release paths, and clear scmi_dev->id after freeing it so the final release cannot free the same ID again.
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Affected Products
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afe5c022a180e0ade394d3fffbafc1a701f50993
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8ecdceeb90cd2c265b222a7b65487faf68fea73
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/916e27f71a80f6d77c48d1a1a5782d6d5ef9017c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a60bc2df2d323cc1342f0cf95563cae266801e20
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c59b3393df1348a12308aaabd5fbc58ed6b21cf5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6abe8fe36b29ff51d1a42c2f338972883f4751a5
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