CVE-2026-45902
Published: May 27, 2026
Modified: May 27, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: bq256xx: 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()`. Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the registration of the `power_supply` handle.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 - < 81d3688c9a2158329391e08f2d0b8ba204216044affected 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 - < 74b5a88318db97d51bb40f774736553c2acd1514affected 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 - < cb5c743936edcebc51880eeb6bf04979b5c9438baffected 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 - < 83c27fdd696ac13d023ef7a0345301be93209c53affected 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 - < 4b6fb0b6124f558131e502e3ffd03e6583b3ace6+2 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.12unaffected 0 - < 5.12unaffected 5.15.202 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.165 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.128 - <= 6.6.*+4 more versions |
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