CVE-2026-45916
Published: May 27, 2026
Modified: May 27, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: sbs-battery: 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. Keep the old behavior of just printing a warning in case of any failures during the IRQ request and finishing the probe successfully.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 - < ca7dd71773e4e050b0fb98768b7eae60f8d1f38baffected d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 - < f1f472b14ad56104ba228b8fbec60d5b21829913affected d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 - < 8010b745b436c3e1ca5dd960aa29fa3e0f6d8841affected d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 - < 2078830c32d1e49ac942c6f8c21f35c806ae5e94affected d2cec82c28802da31596b395ad292cb8f132fd63 - < 82d3eb97a976c9d56bb92b241397610e57a9c629+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.9unaffected 0 - < 4.9unaffected 5.10.252 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.202 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.165 - <= 6.1.*+5 more versions |
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