CVE-2026-45902
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.
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7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b6fb0b6124f558131e502e3ffd03e6583b3ace6nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/74b5a88318db97d51bb40f774736553c2acd1514nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8005843369723d9c8975b7c4202d1b85d6125302nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/81d3688c9a2158329391e08f2d0b8ba204216044nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/83c27fdd696ac13d023ef7a0345301be93209c53nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8796910131a32ff29275052df768ef022929a394nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb5c743936edcebc51880eeb6bf04979b5c9438bnvd
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