CVE-2026-45879
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: bq25980: 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.
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/03d1e4ee4e6aa6d2966e883e4ca0e5be73bf1b7cnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0560a4b09c92e2ecaa883965cf6f9ca51c158ff9nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de95d29d847c6217b7d5845e24a71a4aee7b359nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/16875e3b7bc9e59bfa0acaf1e43f275a6f42a30fnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aeaf03c17260415c2fdd55992f9ad4188d5455anvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f0b1cb41906e86b64bf69f5ededb83b0d757c27nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/86f93dfb23f5bf4f285c4256a7e909d222f7de56nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/abea607ff2f62f4c0a5fb29f7fbdaaab163276a4nvd
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