CVE 8.4 HIGH

power: supply: rt9455: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()_CVE-2026-46270

8.4 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

power: supply: rt9455: 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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-46270
Source Linux
Published Jun 3, 2026 at 15:50
Modified Jun 5, 2026 at 06:06

Affected Product

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Version e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Affected Versions Linux Linux e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Linux Linux e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Linux Linux e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Linux Linux e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Linux Linux e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Linux Linux e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Linux Linux e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Linux Linux e86d69dd786e94046b8f5be7df1b9a8226a40b2a
Linux Linux 4.2

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