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High severity8.4NVD Advisory· Published Jun 3, 2026· Updated Jun 9, 2026

CVE-2026-46270

CVE-2026-46270

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.

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Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernel2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=4.2,<5.10.252
    • (no CPE)
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 4.2.0, < 5.10.252

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