CVE-2026-45946
Published: May 27, 2026
Modified: May 27, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb - < 43cbb78ee047b9b12d096d40e3be265969d4c1f8affected 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb - < 551672981fe227122258a25a385a05f5c0746ad6affected 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb - < f50433f2603def08b21a4bf2fd238687fb5cbde9affected 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb - < 847eeb6c0efcd76c7def73857cf798a4fcd8f79baffected 1c1f13a006ed0d71bb5664c8b7e3e77a28da3beb - < 709db4b476e254579d9c48ec34d397a41ca0c407+4 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.14unaffected 0 - < 5.14unaffected 5.15.202 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.165 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.128 - <= 6.6.*+4 more versions |
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