CVE-2026-93093

firmware: arm_scmi: Publish channel state before callbacks

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2026

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Description

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

firmware: arm_scmi: Publish channel state before callbacks

Transport setup can enable callbacks before the setup routine returns. mailbox_chan_setup() registers the mailbox client with mbox_request_channel(), and the mailbox controller startup path can enable interrupt delivery before SCMI mailbox channel state has been published. Similarly, smc_chan_setup() requests the optional A2P completion IRQ before the SMC transport has made its cinfo pointer visible.

If a pending or spurious callback fires in those windows, the transport RX callback can dereference a NULL transport cinfo pointer. Publishing only the transport-private pointer is not sufficient either: an early callback can enter the SCMI core before scmi_chan_setup() has assigned cinfo->handle. The core derives scmi_info from cinfo->handle in the RX path, so a NULL handle can still fault even when the transport-private cinfo is valid.

Assign cinfo->handle before invoking the transport setup callback. Publish the mailbox and SMC transport-private channel state before requesting the mailbox channels or IRQ, and clear the early-published pointers again on setup failure. Also unwind mailbox setup devres resources on failure so an optional RX setup error that is ignored by the core does not leave stale transport state behind.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5c8a47a5a91d4d6e185f758d61997613d9c5d6ac to before 9d349c7b2392b1196e10421421ea9a09fcc5d3ccAffected
  • 5c8a47a5a91d4d6e185f758d61997613d9c5d6ac to before 50e38091a657ad81385e2aea7e2575e17ac23d79Affected
  • 5c8a47a5a91d4d6e185f758d61997613d9c5d6ac to before 6f3f532531e4a27d28a2240719d1b05ac11766c6Affected
  • 5c8a47a5a91d4d6e185f758d61997613d9c5d6ac to before 1bea027f7ef6fb889628b16c568a5f7c07a51b30Affected
  • 5c8a47a5a91d4d6e185f758d61997613d9c5d6ac to before a1bc587568a4e373db76261dc9561dfc3653917fAffected
  • 5c8a47a5a91d4d6e185f758d61997613d9c5d6ac to before 0314900dcdde044af0208fed212035dbfaa55843Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.7Affected
  • before 5.7Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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