CVE-2026-98848

rtc: ac100: Assign .num before accessing .hws

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 18, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

rtc: ac100: Assign .num before accessing .hws

Commit f316cdff8d67 ("clk: Annotate struct clk_hw_onecell_data with __counted_by") annotated the hws member of 'struct clk_hw_onecell_data' with __counted_by, which informs the bounds sanitizer (UBSAN_BOUNDS) about the number of elements in .hws[], so that it can warn when .hws[] is accessed out of bounds. As noted in that change, the __counted_by member must be initialized with the number of elements before the first array access happens, otherwise there will be a warning from each access prior to the initialization because the number of elements is zero. This occurs in ac100_rtc_register_clks() due to .num being assigned only after every clkout clock has been stored in .hws[]. With CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and a compiler that implements __counted_by (GCC 15.1+ or Clang 20.1+), this triggers an array-index-out-of-bounds report during probe, and with CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP the first store traps.

Initialize .num with AC100_CLKOUT_NUM, the number of elements .hws[] was allocated with, right after the allocation. That is the value the loop counter ends up at on the success path anyway, so the provider's behaviour is unchanged.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to before e77c5fc1f39fdb06ecd1f55b101eea1e1db2ffefAffected
  • f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to before 6bb55381daf1a1bed0657189a1396e7467712525Affected
  • f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to before 160619b38707241e22569f9c983a4b3d0890996aAffected
  • f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to before ad1bf77039cba83373bf1eff3784655e3e3ed2abAffected
  • f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to before 6a4117eee82dd85f11bf898bf66026764011eeb6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.113 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.56 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.10 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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