CVE-2026-45936
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: goldfish: 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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8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b29ffe4090a3fc7a7649de20e1eb1e53adddac7nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/33751e28842bf5aee5ef7b2b8d5e456a069095cbnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4350505e82b4f972ddb788e1c712c557c38859d0nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/589d4fe56713c6344cd9f8939f9c7621c85f0966nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/77ea437faa4c06362e3ecfd2d7264eaa7ac1e82cnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c89aade8335e26a6a7dcda18992d15f51943927nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2ce982e2e0c888dc55c888ad0e20ea04daf2e6bnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bad8b61eb5059acd88349680e47839342dc89e94nvd
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