CVE-2026-93115
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Check ACPI_COMPANION() against NULL
Every platform driver can be forced to match a device that doesn't match its list of device IDs because of device_match_driver_override(), so platform drivers that rely on the existence of a device's ACPI companion object need to verify its presence.
mlxbf_pmc_probe() passes the result of ACPI_COMPANION() to acpi_device_hid(), which dereferences it, so force-binding the driver to a device without an ACPI companion leads to a NULL pointer dereference.
Accordingly, add a requisite ACPI_COMPANION() check against NULL to the mlxbf-pmc driver and return -ENODEV when the companion is missing.
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7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/71ba8b6e28f7a83b724036f5de07e03bb5473286nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/950d8e8375f3ff4787de51b7bdf8dd23a3ad6547nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a75b84119e56fc34b0f1403f3b93d357a55dabb6nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf1e0cc5cc1d4e71b699fc98cc9198ead0ed53e0nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c38cce70adef874c2a7b5132c14d6c221401deffnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d25dd08268aeaceb485189aaa84aa6d68a460291nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdfb736282b9665c0169df0c4152ec91fdea2767nvd
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