CVE-2026-98528

gpio: cdev: fix kernel stack leak to user-space in error path

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 18, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

gpio: cdev: fix kernel stack leak to user-space in error path

If we fail to acquire the GPIO chip guard in gpio_desc_to_lineinfo(), we return immediately before zeroing the info struct we'll end up passing to the user-space later in lineinfo_get_v1(). This may leak the kernel stack contents. Make gpio_desc_to_lineinfo() return int so that the -ENODEV returned on failure to acquire the guard can be propagated to the callers.

While not strictly necessary: move the memset() before trying to acquire the SRCU read lock too for good measure.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d83cee3d2bb131c7fca7e19f1e33dc7530fd7083 to before 8460ee5216ab9a38263b01dca4b0a27e083f70f3Affected
  • d83cee3d2bb131c7fca7e19f1e33dc7530fd7083 to before cf3d043582e106a0e57002bec8a6de8929ba3e1cAffected
  • d83cee3d2bb131c7fca7e19f1e33dc7530fd7083 to before 60a466f231905cd96ae6f0f3c44a710c97873dacAffected
  • d83cee3d2bb131c7fca7e19f1e33dc7530fd7083 to before 1feb5d39b05afd902ed9fc902ec5b15be03a4bdbAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.9Affected
  • before 6.9Not affected
  • 6.12.112 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.55 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.9 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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