High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 19, 2026· Updated Jul 30, 2026
CVE-2026-63977
CVE-2026-63977
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dpll: zl3073x: use __dpll_device_change_ntf() and remove change_work
The change_work was introduced to send device change notifications from DPLL device callbacks without deadlocking on dpll_lock, since the callbacks are already invoked under that lock. Now that __dpll_device_change_ntf() is exported for callers that already hold dpll_lock, use it directly and remove the change_work infrastructure entirely.
This eliminates a race condition where change_work could be re-scheduled after cancel_work_sync() during device teardown, potentially causing the handler to dereference a freed or NULL dpll_dev pointer.
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