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CVE-2026-45946

power: supply: ab8500: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to < 43cbb78ee047b9b12d096d40e3be265969d4c1f8affected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to < 551672981fe227122258a25a385a05f5c0746ad6affected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to < f50433f2603def08b21a4bf2fd238687fb5cbde9affected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to < 847eeb6c0efcd76c7def73857cf798a4fcd8f79baffected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to < 709db4b476e254579d9c48ec34d397a41ca0c407affected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to < 46dbda27b028d78087667e8280966b99cec015caaffected
  • 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb to < c4af8a98bb52825a5331ae1d0604c0ea6956ba4baffected
  • 341db343768bc44f3512facc464021730d64071caffected
  • 5.13.4 to < 5.14affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.14affected
  • 0 to < 5.14unaffected
  • 5.15.202 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.165 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.128 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.75 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.14 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 6.19.4 to ≤ 6.19.*unaffected
  • 7.0 to ≤ *unaffected

References