CVE-2026-45946 (GCVE-0-2026-45946)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-27 12:18
Modified
2026-05-27 12:18
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: ab8500: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed() Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_` variant for allocating/registering the `power_supply` handle, means that the `power_supply` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `power_supply` handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding unregistration of the IRQ handler has run. This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `power_supply_changed()` with a freed `power_supply` handle. Which usually crashes the system or otherwise silently corrupts the memory... Note that there is a similar situation which can also happen during `probe()`; the possibility of an interrupt firing _before_ registering the `power_supply` handle. This would then lead to the nasty situation of using the `power_supply` handle *uninitialized* in `power_supply_changed()`. Commit 1c1f13a006ed ("power: supply: ab8500: Move to componentized binding") introduced this issue during a refactorization. Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the registration of the `power_supply` handle.
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Linux Linux Version: 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb
Version: 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb
Version: 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb
Version: 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb
Version: 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb
Version: 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb
Version: 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb
Version: 341db343768bc44f3512facc464021730d64071c
Version: 5.13.4   ≤
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